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Reading Quotes by Philip Pullman
- I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me…
- Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.
- If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a…
- You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to…
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