Philip Pullman quotes - page 3

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed. (Philip Pullman)
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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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'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
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What is worth having is worth working for.
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I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
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Imagination is a form of seeing.
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So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
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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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All good things pass away.
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The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else. (Philip Pullman)
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
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Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
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If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
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Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
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Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
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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 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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It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.
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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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... his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects. (Philip Pullman)
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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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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Everything means something.
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