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Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
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And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
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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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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
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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.
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All good things pass away.
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A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
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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 practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is The Iliad and The Odyssey. I told those stories many, many times.
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I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.
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It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, Make this a feminist story! I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.
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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
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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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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
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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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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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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
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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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