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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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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
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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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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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I don't profess any religion I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
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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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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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Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
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