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“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”
Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber
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“One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.”
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“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”
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“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.”
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“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.”
Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press
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“As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.”
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“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
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“I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.”
Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
