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Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.
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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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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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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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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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And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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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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If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?
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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
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I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
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I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
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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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