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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
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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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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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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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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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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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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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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. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
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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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I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
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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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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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It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
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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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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.
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