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I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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Norwich
Norfolk
Sir Philip Pullman
Atheistic
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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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When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
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I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.
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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.
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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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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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He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
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She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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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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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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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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If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?
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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.
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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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