Philip Pullman Quotes

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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…
• I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land…
• You are dead- what am I speaking to?
• Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
• She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her…
• You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
• 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…
• Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and…
• 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…
• Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
• Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
• 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…
• 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…
• Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor…
• Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.
• Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
• Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without…
• Imagination is a form of seeing
• We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
• As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

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