Quotes
Authors
Francis Spufford

"Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions have weight. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. Itâ€™s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool."

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber

Francis Spufford

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“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.”
“My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.”
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
“Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters”
“Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.”
“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Source : "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.
“Party politics is now a real farce.”

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