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Philip Pullman  Quotes
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

—Philip Pullman

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Be-YourselfChangeLife
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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...

—Philip Pullman

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Religion
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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

—Philip Pullman

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Fate
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And Will knew what it was to see his dæmon. As she flew down to the sand, he felt his heart tighten and release in a way he never forgot. Sixty years and more would...

—Philip Pullman

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DaemonMemory
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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.

—Philip Pullman

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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was...

—Philip Pullman

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DeathLifeTruth
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It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning...

—Philip Pullman

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CatholicsHereticsHistory
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A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in

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Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, … And I don’t see much of that in most fantasy.

—Philip Pullman

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Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the...

—Philip Pullman

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DeathJoyLife
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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.

—Philip Pullman

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ChildFuturePhilosophy
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The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

—Philip Pullman

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Fairy-TalesWriting
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Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

—Philip Pullman

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.

—Philip Pullman

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InspirationalLife
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Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except...

—Philip Pullman

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LoveReligion
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But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don’t like?Well, then, you’re discontented, en’t you? There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a...

—Philip Pullman

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HonestySelfSelf-Awareness
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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our...

—Philip Pullman

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LossLove
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Walk Into the Sky.

—Philip Pullman

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I think there’s a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don’t necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them...

—Philip Pullman

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DiscussionOffenceTruth
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she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

—Philip Pullman

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DeathFantasyNature
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A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a...

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I warmly welcome Anand Tucker as director of the first His Dark Materials film, … He respects the integrity of the narrative and will maintain that integrity in the film-making process. His ideas are exciting...

—Philip Pullman

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and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen people dying, you know...

—Philip Pullman

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For a human being, nothing comes naturally,’ said Grumman. ‘We have to learn everything we do.

—Philip Pullman

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HumansInstinctLearning
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I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I’ll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I’ll...

—Philip Pullman

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Free-WillInspirational
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And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am...

—Philip Pullman

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You don’t win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

—Philip Pullman

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InspirationalLife
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Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been...

—Philip Pullman

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Human-FreedomReligionRevolution
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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for...

—Philip Pullman

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Mary-MaloneMorality
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All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn’t feel so miserable.

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LoveLove-Hurts
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Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.

—Philip Pullman

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British WriterNature
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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.

—Philip Pullman

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ChoicePhilosophy
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We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars,...

—Philip Pullman

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BeautyMoonlightNature
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The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a...

—Philip Pullman

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Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

—Philip Pullman

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God
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

—Philip Pullman

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BooksNeedsStories
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But Balthamos couldn’t tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn’t keep still: he flew up again, scouring the sky as if to seek out Baruch in this cloud or...

—Philip Pullman

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Grief
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I will love you forever, 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...

—Philip Pullman

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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that’s a high title to claim.

—Philip Pullman

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That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

—Philip Pullman

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LifeMaturityYouth
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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

—Philip Pullman

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CensorshipEvilFirst-Amendment
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Who are you?” the woman said at last.”Lyra Silver—””No, where d’you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?” Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It...

—Philip Pullman

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LiesScholarsTruth
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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...

—Philip Pullman

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AuthorsWritingWriting-Advice
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Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don’t want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it’s dangerous. We’re...

—Philip Pullman

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FearPhilosophy
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And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone...

—Philip Pullman

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Believe-In-YourselfComplicatedDeed
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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don’t exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

—Philip Pullman

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ExistenceLifeScience
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When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it’s Christianity in all its variants, or whether it’s Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power,...

—Philip Pullman

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Christianity
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I write almost always in the third person, and I don’t think the narrator is male or female anyway. They’re both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent...

—Philip Pullman

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ReadingWriting
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Being a practiced liar doesn’t mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

—Philip Pullman

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ImaginationLie
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Tell them stories.

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AfterlifeHarpiesLyra
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