“Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Then it started to rain, so she went inside and made some coffee and did what she had never done in her… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“And remember this: take the hard road, not the easy one. The road that leads to life is a hard one, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Oh, Will," she said, "what can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“He said, "Lyra, gal, it won't be long now. When you see that old bear, you tell him Lee went out fighting.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Poor Hester, she was lying now, not crouching tense and watchful as she'd done all his adult life. And her beautiful gold-brown… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Creation, whether it's writing, painting or whatever, is essentially despotic and autocratic in nature, because it's the work of one mind and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Like all fundamentalists who get their clammy hands on the levers of power, the market fanatics are going to kill off every… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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