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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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Sir Philip Pullman
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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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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
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