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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.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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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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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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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And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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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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Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.
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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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And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.
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