Philip Pullman Quotes

• If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

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• When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed.

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• I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

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• Constant kindness can accomplish because where we are is always the most important place.

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• That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

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• You don’t win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

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• We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

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• You don’t win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

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• I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

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• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

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  After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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• I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

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• What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

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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 a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

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• True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

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• One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you.

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• My only real claim to anyone’s attention lies in my writing.

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• Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

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• If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get going next day.

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• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

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Philip Pullman (28)

Birth:	19th October, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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