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...because where we are is always the most important place.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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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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We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.
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But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.
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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
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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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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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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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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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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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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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I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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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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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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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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.
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