The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Francis Spufford Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 1964 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author |
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Francis Spufford is an English author. He studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985. He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987–90 for Chatto & Windus. He has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there. He has written several books include: Unapologetic, Red Plenty, The child that books built, Backroom boys, I May Be Some Time, Vintage Book of the Devil, and Golden Hill.
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