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But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
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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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
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The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.
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