Francis Spufford 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 Complex Quotes Concentration Quotes Dimly Quotes Faintly Quotes Liquefied Quotes Perceive Quotes Pleasure Quotes Selfishness Quotes Write Quotes 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. It’s always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it’s going well.
John Cameron Mitchell I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there. – John Cameron Mitchell
Leslie Mann Don’t assume I have everything figured out… I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I’m just hurtling through the world without a plan at all. – Leslie Mann
John Astin I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it’s all about. To answer some of the great questions of life. – John Astin
Julian Castro My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. – Julian Castro
Chen-Ning YangReligionScience Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don’t think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious. – Chen-Ning Yang
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