"As Jane Austen might have put it: It……" — Philip Pullman
"As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents."
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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman has 176 quotes on this site.
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience…
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk,…
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If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against…
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We have to learn everything we do.
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And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of…
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Once upon a time lasts forever
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
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I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North…
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write…
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My books are about killing God.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there…
— Tony Abbott
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn…
— Corazon Aquino
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs…
— Ernestine Rose
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in…
— George Santayana
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming…
— Michael Polanyi
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be…
— James Madison
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized…
— James Weldon Johnson
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have…
— Unknown Author
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To…
— Ian Cawsey
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