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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Philip Pullman

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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