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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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.
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It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
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Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
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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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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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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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Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.
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