"We are all subject to the fates. But……" — Philip Pullman

"We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair."

— Philip Pullman

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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman has 176 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience…
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk,…
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against…
We have to learn everything we do.
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of…
Once upon a time lasts forever
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North…
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write…
My books are about killing God.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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