"There is time, and there is beyond time.……" — Philip Pullman
"There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God."
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Philip Pullman
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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman
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