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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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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
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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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One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
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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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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?
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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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I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.
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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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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.
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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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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
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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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