Francis Spufford Needs Quotations

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

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.