"Human beings can't see anything without wanting to……" — Philip Pullman
"Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die."
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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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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
— Andrea Bocelli
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.…
— Jim Carrey
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People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep…
— A. Philip Randolph
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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
— Mark Twain
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
— Josh Billings
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it…
— Louise Brooks
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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
— Henry Hazlitt
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There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's…
— Norman Finkelstein
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
— Steven Levitt
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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking…
— L. Neil Smith
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Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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