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2b2717c	We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence		books inspirational	Philip Pullman
047f412	We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.		inspirational	Philip Pullman
d39ad0c	You cannot change what you are, only what you do.		self-determination change life	Philip Pullman
1cdd1c9	I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.		morality	Philip Pullman
1921495	I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to ta..		physics	Philip Pullman
3ff5f83	People are too complicated to have simple labels.		people	Philip Pullman
90c4940	Oh, Will," she said, "What can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory..." "No," he said. "Memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much. Oh, Lyra, I wish t..			Philip Pullman
05f3dee	All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.			Philip Pullman
575bd5d	I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.'		understanding writing spirituality spiritual difficulty possibility atheist sarcasm	Philip Pullman
abdc7e5	When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absol..		young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book belief value children-s-books	Philip Pullman
47c28c8	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.		philosophy	Philip Pullman
d868db1	That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.' They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious.			Philip Pullman
42dfcd2	I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.		on-writing storytelling	Philip Pullman
35c50a5	Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.			Philip Pullman
6533670	You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.		fate	Philip Pullman
8247001	But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the..			Philip Pullman
13955d1	You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: 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. We bear their children, who are witches if they are female, human if not; and then in the blink of an..		witches death	Philip Pullman
7faffe1	There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.		books inspirational companionship	Philip Pullman
9b37290	I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.		lies good love truth mrs-coulter	Philip Pullman
875898c	Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.			Philip Pullman
9bdec49	Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.			Philip Pullman
2db72a9	I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.		writing inspirational tyranny	Philip Pullman
cccd81e	I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.		young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book plot belief value children-s-books paraphrased	philip pullman
7dfe527	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.		philosophy	Philip Pullman
498031b	She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in h..			Philip Pullman
716ebd9	If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.		life inspirational	Philip Pullman
3e82b81	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.		labels good people complicated deed evil name	Philip Pullman
f2fa3cc	As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.		science inspirational controversy	Philip Pullman
e4a7c13	When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.			Philip Pullman
ed58b53	We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.		living	Philip Pullman
593ca26	So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.		the-golden-compass philip-pullman	Philip Pullman
7248980	I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again...			Philip Pullman
1459118	Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.			Philip Pullman
3bde908	Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.		lie	Philip Pullman
3d710b6	Tell them stories.		harpies lyra	Philip Pullman
23d665e	People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.		philosophy sci-fi	Philip Pullman
8bccaa1	The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.			Philip Pullman
8af3718	All good things pass away.		demise	Philip Pullman
41651f4	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.		winter nature witches moonlight	Philip Pullman
0b6f41c	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.		youth maturity	Philip Pullman
753d461	You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.		life inspirational	Philip Pullman
a1dd230	It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.			Philip Pullman
d86f440	Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all			Philip Pullman
72bbccc	Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.			Philip Pullman

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