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Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.
— Philip Pullman
Every atom of me and every atom of you.
— Philip Pullman
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
— Philip Pullman
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
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The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.
— Philip Pullman
He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.
— Philip Pullman
Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
— Philip Pullman
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
— Philip Pullman
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
— Philip Pullman
You are a cesspit if moral filth.
— Philip Pullman
they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way,
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Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too.
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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
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There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.
— Philip Pullman
If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
— Philip Pullman
Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.
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there is an angel called Metatron.
— Philip Pullman
You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
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A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in
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As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.
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We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
— Philip Pullman
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
— Philip Pullman
Shame to die with one bullet left, though.
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You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true !
— Philip Pullman
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
— Philip Pullman
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
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and she saw a bed of lamb's lettuce, or rapunzel.
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Do not lie to the Scholar.
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Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.
— Philip Pullman
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
— Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
— Philip Pullman
But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know
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I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.
— Philip Pullman
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse. — Philip Pullman
Maybe so," he said, "but whatever little chance of safety there is, I want her to have it.
— Philip Pullman
Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination.
— Philip Pullman
Imagination is a form of seeing
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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
— Philip Pullman
If a witch offers you her love,you should take it. If you don't it's your own fault if bad things happen to you ...
— Philip Pullman
My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.
— Philip Pullman
Once upon a time lasts forever
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All good things pass away.
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Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.
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In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.
— Philip Pullman
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
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I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.
— Philip Pullman
the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.
— Philip Pullman
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
— Philip Pullman
The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.
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Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.
— Philip Pullman
Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
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For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
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You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
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When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language.
— Philip Pullman
Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.
— Philip Pullman
War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.
— Philip Pullman
There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind.
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where there are priests, there is fear of Dust.
— Philip Pullman
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.
— Philip Pullman
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.
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There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.
— Philip Pullman
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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That is a question with too complicated an answer.
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I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.
— Philip Pullman
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
— Philip Pullman
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
— Philip Pullman
Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.
— Philip Pullman
What is worth having is worth working for.
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The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
— Philip Pullman
Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that.- from: 'The Twelve Brothers — Philip Pullman
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
— Philip Pullman
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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Make a noise in there and I won't help you. You're on your own.
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