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He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
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All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
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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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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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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
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You don't read it in the sense of reading a message it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.
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So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
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I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.
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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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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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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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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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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 wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
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