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Tales Out of School
Kees Beekmans
‘But it seems I’ve said something stupid again, and blasphemous to boot.’
Kiss Daddy!
John Borneman
‘The whole family giggles and I am standing there, holding his father’s hand, looking into his eyes, hesitating. Time seems to slow down.’
Cruising
Kamran Nazeer
‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
Nadeem Aslam | God and Me
Nadeem Aslam
‘I loved—and continue to love—the pages of certain copies of the Qur’an.’
God and Me
Geoff Dyer
‘All my religious experiences—if we can call them that—have been drug-related.’
God and Me
Pankaj Mishra
‘I was unfortunate to know a Christianity so tainted by colonialism and racial distrust.’
God and Me
Diana Athill
‘Perhaps it’s just that the human mind is incapable of imagining anything that doesn’t begin.’
God and Me
Blake Morrison
‘My hopes weren’t high, even to begin with, so I felt no bitterness when He didn’t reveal Himself’
God and Me
Richard Mabey
‘It’s always been like this for me with spirituality. I catch a whiff of the numinous, and it turns visceral in a moment.’
God and Me
Andrew Martin
‘At the moment, I would say that depends what you mean by ‘believe’ and what you mean by “God”’
