No success will ever quench your thirst – my rich person’s therapist told me that. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
The cliche of call-centre work is that it’s mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it’s happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
So why don’t all religions get together and go to war with atheists? Because we all want the same thing: respect and tolerance and not to be forced to do anything we don’t want to. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone’s. Except in the shops at Christmas. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook friends just exactly how great we are at being compassionate. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations and simplifications. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
