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Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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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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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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?
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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
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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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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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