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One Quotes by Philip Pullman
- What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than…
- No one has the right to live without being shocked.
- One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents'…
- When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
- If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of…
- What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide…
- I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that…
- Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
- I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character…
- I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-…
- If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
- On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the…
- But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that…
- When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At…
- And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is…
- One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being,…
- It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.
- From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.
- ...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 fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin…
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