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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
Audiobook Narrator
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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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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
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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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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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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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We have to learn everything we do.
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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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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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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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But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.
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What is worth having is worth working for.
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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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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.
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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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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
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I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
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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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I don't profess any religion I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
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It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
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