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Philip Pullman Quotes

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good Picture Quote #1

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage Picture Quote #1

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language Picture Quote #1

I don’t know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I’m not there, they go away again Picture Quote #1

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs Picture Quote #1

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition Picture Quote #1

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We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair... death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life Picture Quote #1

If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us... inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did? Picture Quote #1

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth Picture Quote #1

Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don’t want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it’s dangerous. We’re more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right Picture Quote #1

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don’t know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing Picture Quote #1

$If I’m reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don’t trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I’m reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I’m writing... I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid? Picture Quote #1$

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Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive Picture Quote #1

To get the best out of life here... Good grief. There’s plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you’re afraid of doing, and then do it Picture Quote #1

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that’s an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels Picture Quote #1

We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that Picture Quote #1

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? Picture Quote #1

If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics... but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames Picture Quote #1

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There’s some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There’s others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can’t make yourself alive again Picture Quote #1

And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am I telling it from? Picture Quote #1

How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what’s going to happen? I don’t intend to do that, I promise you Picture Quote #1

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair Picture Quote #1

She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die Picture Quote #1

Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, lyra. That’s original sin Picture Quote #1

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I wish... She said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on Picture Quote #1

Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed Picture Quote #1

If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things Picture Quote #1

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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good (Philip Pullman Quotes) The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage (Philip Pullman Quotes) When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language (Philip Pullman Quotes) I don’t know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I’m not there, they go away again (Philip Pullman Quotes) She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs (Philip Pullman Quotes) Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition (Philip Pullman Quotes) We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair... death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life (Philip Pullman Quotes) If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us... inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did? (Philip Pullman Quotes) Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth (Philip Pullman Quotes) Maybe sometimes we don’t do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don’t want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it’s dangerous. We’re more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right (Philip Pullman Quotes) The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don’t know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing (Philip Pullman Quotes) If I’m reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don’t trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I’m reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I’m writing... I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid? (Philip Pullman Quotes) Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive (Philip Pullman Quotes) To get the best out of life here... Good grief. There’s plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you’re afraid of doing, and then do it (Philip Pullman Quotes) And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that’s an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels (Philip Pullman Quotes) We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that (Philip Pullman Quotes) All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? (Philip Pullman Quotes) If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics... but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames (Philip Pullman Quotes) There’s some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There’s others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can’t make yourself alive again (Philip Pullman Quotes) And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am I telling it from? (Philip Pullman Quotes) How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what’s going to happen? I don’t intend to do that, I promise you (Philip Pullman Quotes) We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair (Philip Pullman Quotes) She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die (Philip Pullman Quotes) Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, lyra. That’s original sin (Philip Pullman Quotes) I wish... She said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on (Philip Pullman Quotes) Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed (Philip Pullman Quotes) If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things (Philip Pullman Quotes)

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