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From Quotes by Philip Pullman
- I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there,…
- She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,…
- All things from the north are devilish.
- I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
- 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…
- Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in…
- Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
- So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
- Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years…
- Marisa! Marisa!†The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood…
- From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.
- 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…
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