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Only Quotes by Philip Pullman
- My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing
- The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
- Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
- 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'…
- There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
- 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…
- Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
- 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…
- ...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature…
- 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-…
- You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
- Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and…
- There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
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