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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.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.
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