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Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Anyone Arranged Find Leave Libraries Past Public Societies Walking Ways Wealth Well-Meaning Which

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You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Banker Become Believe Crap Culture Demonstrating Education Everyone Exciting High Investment Just Kinds Low Middle Needs Values Way Worked You

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It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Always Going Little Me Sensation Struck Unfair Well Writing

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Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Able Because Complex Concentration Greatest Greatest Pleasure However Know Perceive Pleasure Selfishness State Why Write I Write

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If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: About Actual Believer Best Doing Effect Embedded Fabulous God Guilt He Him His Hope Lewis Liberty Necessary Out Render Requiring Resourceful Special Story Tried True True Story Want You

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Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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