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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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This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
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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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The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
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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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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
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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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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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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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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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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
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I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.
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She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
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What is worth having is worth working for.
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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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I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.
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