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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
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
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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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