"Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue."

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Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

Francis Spufford

#Believe Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Fool Quotes

“If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.”
“I'm a horrible golfer.”
“It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness...”

Source : Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)”
“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.”
“The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.”
“Has everyone gone mad?â€ â€œEveryone was mad already, my lady,â€ Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. â€œIt is merely that the times have brought it out in them.”
“You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.”

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