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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Philip Pullman

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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
Audiobook Narrator
Executive Producer
Film Writer
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Novelist
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University Teacher
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Norwich
Norfolk
Sir Philip Pullman
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