Philip Pullman Quotes

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• ...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would…
• The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than…
• 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…
• 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…
• She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed…
• 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…
• 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.…
• D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became…
• 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…
• It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the…
• 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…
• 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 in…
• 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…
• 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…
• For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do.
• 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…

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