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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
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I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: Nobody understands me and I'm the only genius in the world and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism
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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'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
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He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
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A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
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A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.
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It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
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Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.
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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence
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