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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
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We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
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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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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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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.
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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
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All good things pass away.
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The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.
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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
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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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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
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When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
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I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.
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