"She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she……" — Philip Pullman
"She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs."
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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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More Brandy Quotes
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
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There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he…
— Edward Lear
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
— George Saintsbury
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Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
— James Boswell
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Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . .…
— Clark Gable
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I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say,…
— Sholom Aleichem
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and…
— Clement Freud
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