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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
Audiobook Narrator
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Norwich
Norfolk
Sir Philip Pullman
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The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
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It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
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We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
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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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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
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Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses.”
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism
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I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is The Iliad and The Odyssey. I told those stories many, many times.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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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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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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We have to learn everything we do.
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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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I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: Nobody understands me and I'm the only genius in the world and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.
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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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