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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
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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.
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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
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All good things pass away.
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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
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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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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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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism
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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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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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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
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It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
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I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.
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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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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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