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1. "Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be." ~ Francis Spufford
2. "Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could." ~ Francis Spufford
3. "If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn't hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop." ~ Francis Spufford
4. "When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth." ~ Francis Spufford
5. "What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us." ~ Francis Spufford
6. "You never came out the way you came in." ~ Francis Spufford
7. "He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present." ~ Francis Spufford
8. "Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue." ~ Francis Spufford
9. "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." ~ Francis Spufford
10. "If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income." ~ Francis Spufford

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