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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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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
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But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.
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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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