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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.
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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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The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
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A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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...because where we are is always the most important place.
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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
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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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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
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She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
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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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This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
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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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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
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No one has the right to live without being shocked.
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Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
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