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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
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It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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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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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If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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...because where we are is always the most important place.
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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
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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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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
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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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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
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