"No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to……" — Philip Pullman
"No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much..."
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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