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What is worth having is worth working for.

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
Audiobook Narrator
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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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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Do not lie to the Scholar.
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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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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
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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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I don't profess any religion I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
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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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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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One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.
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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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Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
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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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I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.
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All good things pass away.
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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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...because where we are is always the most important place.
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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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