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And was it true before Pythagoras realized it?" Malcolm thought. "Yes," he said. "It must have been." "So he didn't invent it. He discovered it." "Yes." "Good. Now let's take one of the alethiometer symbols." --
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Philip Pullman |
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You shouldn't do it if you hate it. That's just prostitution.
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Philip Pullman |
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You know the theorem of Pythagoras?" "The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." "That's exactly it. And is that true for every example you've tried?" "Yes."
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Philip Pullman |
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Mas o que e melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessoes e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?
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Philip Pullman |
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E sagrado e justo o massacre dos opressores -- sempre foi. Dize-me se nos, os pobres, nao somos oprimidos pelos ricos?
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reação
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Philip Pullman |
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Nothing is just anything.
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Philip Pullman |
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She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they'd be able to talk about it....
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Philip Pullman |
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If I told you half of what he's done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn't imagine it could be true.
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Philip Pullman |
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That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to.
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Philip Pullman |
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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.
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Philip Pullman |
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I was condemned to be burnt myself recently, or my books were. An article in the _Catholic Herald_ said that my _His Dark Materials_ was "far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry [Potter]"; it was "a million times more sinister." Naturally, I'm very proud of this distinction, and I asked the publishers to print it in the paperback of _The Subtle Knife_."
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Philip Pullman |
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It might not be fair, but no one's to blame.
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Philip Pullman |
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Malcolm drew back towards the wall. The customer who'd spoken was called George Boatwright, a high-coloured and truculent boatman whom Mr Polstead had had to throw out of the Trout half a dozen times; but he was a fair man, and he'd never spoken roughly to Malcolm. The silence in the bar now was profound, and even customers in other parts of the inn had become aware that something was happening, and had come to the doorway to watch
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Philip Pullman |
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It's important to put it like that: not "I am a writer," but rather "I write stories." If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you're in danger of thinking that you're the most important thing. But you're not. The story is what matters, and you're only the servant. Your job is to get it out on time and in good order."
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Philip Pullman |
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Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
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Philip Pullman |
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Which made her barefaced lies all the more effective, Lord Asriel thought with disgust; she lied in the very marrow of her bones.
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Philip Pullman |
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The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass. That first book was set in a world like ours, but different. This book begins in our own world.
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Philip Pullman |
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Was I wrong?" "Yes, of course. But you had no choice." "I must have." "No, you had to do it. If you hadn't done it, you'd have felt feeble." "It shouldn't be about how we feel--guilty, feeble--" "No, and it isn't. It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that."
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Philip Pullman |
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Did you seriously think for one moment," she said, sounding fierce now, "that I would let this little baby, who has been given into our care, be taken away by three strangers on the strength of a single piece of paper? Three men who practically forced their way into this holy building without any invitation? Who frightened the oldest and the least well of us with threats and weapons--yes, weapons--waving your guns in her face? Who do you th..
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Philip Pullman |
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arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death.
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Philip Pullman |
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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. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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Philip Pullman |
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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
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Philip Pullman |
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I will love you forever, 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 . . .
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Philip Pullman |
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The two dark figures of the bene elim has not moved. But they spoke: "You must come with us now. Lord Asriel needs you at once. The enemy's power is growing every minute. The shaman has told you what your task is. Follow us and help us win. Come with us. Come this way. Come now." And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said."
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Philip Pullman |
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Lyra's heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won. She put her arms around the skinny little form to hold him safe.
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Philip Pullman |
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What a stupid exercise," said her daemon after five minutes. "Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens."
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Philip Pullman |
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Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey's face.
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Philip Pullman |
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The golden monkey darted from her side in a flash, and tugged Pantalaimon out from the mesh cage as Lyra fell out herself.
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Philip Pullman |
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Or when a good character does something bad? It's probably better to think about good or bad actions rather than good or bad characters. People are complicated.
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Philip Pullman |
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If that was Tom Simms," said Audrey, "I'd say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise."
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Philip Pullman |
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Algunas historias son asi. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapaces de hacerlo.
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Philip Pullman |
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One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.
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Philip Pullman |
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Lyra swore with every word she knew.
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Philip Pullman |
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She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out.
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life-lessons
philosophy
mary-malone
knowledge
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Philip Pullman |
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because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
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Philip Pullman |
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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. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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Philip Pullman |
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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.
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tools
technology
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Philip Pullman |
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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
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Philip Pullman |
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I wish I'd seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He's killing people in order to save their souls....It's much more interesting, because much more realistic, when there's a struggle between different goods.
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Philip Pullman |
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Anything that was associated with human workmanship and human thought was surrounded by Shadows....
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Philip Pullman |
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One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.
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Philip Pullman |
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Good intentions never wrote a story worth reading.
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Philip Pullman |
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Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it.
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Philip Pullman |
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She's mad. Best leave her be, in case it's catching.
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Philip Pullman |