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When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
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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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I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.
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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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