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Dan Sumption
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There is no doubt that large scale immigration changes the shape, texture and potentially the identity of a nation, but so do out-of-town retail parks, coffee chains, theme pubs, second homes, gentrified cities and privatised streets. If you don't want the population movement, you don't get the cheap, easy consumer lifestyle it facilitates. Which will you choose?
— Sep 24, 2017 03:44AM
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Dan Sumption
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"you can't approach the numinous with discursive thought, any more than you can solve an algebraic equation through the use of metaphor. “Sell your cleverness”, advises the Persian mystic poet Rumi, “and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition.” It seems like good advice, and when I try to follow it I see these things appear in a subtly different light.
— Sep 24, 2017 12:50AM
Dan Sumption
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"A function of poetry is to give words to intuitions that, if expressed in prose, would fall apart under their own flimsiness; to see what is coming and try to express it and not to have it understood until everybody else can also see it, at which point they will claim that they saw it all along."
— Sep 23, 2017 05:40AM
Dan Sumption
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"I used to long to be on Newsnight every week, offering up my Very Important Opinions on the world. This was in my twenties, back when I didn't know anything. Only people who don't know anything want to be noticed for offering up their opinions as if they were facts."
— Sep 23, 2017 03:37AM
