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But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will."
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philip-pullman
the-amber-spyglass
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Philip Pullman |
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There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the migh..
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Philip Pullman |
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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.
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writing
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Philip Pullman |
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Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.
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Philip Pullman |
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Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and flower.
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Philip Pullman |
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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
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Philip Pullman |
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Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we enjoy in Middlemarch is the interplay between what the characters do and what we know about them because of the telling voice. It's less of a problem for the cinema when it deals with novels that are purely concerned with action and what people do. I haven't thought this through, and I'm just trying it now to see what it so..
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Philip Pullman |
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The kingdom of heaven promised us certain things: it promised us happiness and a sense of purpose and a sense of having a place in the universe, of having a role and a destiny that were noble and splendid; and so we were connected to things. We were not alienated. But now that, for me anyway, the King is dead, I find that I still need these things that heaven promised, and I'm not willing to live without them. I don't think I will continue ..
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Philip Pullman |
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Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know." --
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Philip Pullman |
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many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction
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Philip Pullman |
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8eb1953
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Why, yes, the moment you're born, your death comes into the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out.
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Philip Pullman |
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Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.
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independence
sally-lockhart
upbringing
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Philip Pullman |
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Shame to die with one bullet left, though.
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Philip Pullman |
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She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.
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Philip Pullman |
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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Philip Pullman |
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one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing a fantasy. I hadn't expected ever to write a fantasy, because I am not a great fantasy fan. But I realized that I could use the apparatus of fantasy to say things that I thought were true. Which was exactly what, I then realized, Milton had been doing with Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is not a story of people and some other ..
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Philip Pullman |
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I bet you could catch bullets," she said, and threw the stick away. "How do you do that?" "By not being human," he said. "That's why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know about this; you can understand the symbol reader."
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iorek
lyra
trick
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Philip Pullman |
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e822025
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We all show false faces to the world, and a good thing too, for a hundred reasons. We should be consistent with our friends and lovers, so as not to be unkind. But if in your heart you are not kind, it's better to be false, to act kindly even if you don't feel it, because the deed is important and not the reason for it. That kind of falsity is the triumph of our civilization.
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Philip Pullman |
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Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing."
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good
scientits
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Philip Pullman |
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06799c5
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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.
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Philip Pullman |
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It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.
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cute
first-love
love
lovers
romantic
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Philip Pullman |
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Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.
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Philip Pullman |
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The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
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description
sky
sunset
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Philip Pullman |
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Who are you?" the woman said at last. "Lyra Silver--" "No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?" Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand."
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scholars
truth
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Philip Pullman |
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Truly," he said, "I am dead ... I'm dead, and I'm going to Hell ..." "Hush," said Lyra, "we'll go together."
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Philip Pullman |
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But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
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Philip Pullman |
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A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
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Philip Pullman |
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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..
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Philip Pullman |
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My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.
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mary-malone
tea
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Philip Pullman |
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750e140
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Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.
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Philip Pullman |
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A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the waking world of sense.
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Philip Pullman |
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She was afraid of John Faa, and what she was most afraid of was his kindness.
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Philip Pullman |
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And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.
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Philip Pullman |
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He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves--the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed.
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Philip Pullman |
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I felt as if something all passionately believed in depended on carrying on with something I didn't.
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Philip Pullman |
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She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.
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faith
forgiveness
god
hope
love
mary-magdalene
prostitution
redemption
religion
second-chances
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Philip Pullman |
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31d1684
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I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll feel as I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.
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inspirational
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Philip Pullman |
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76b89fe
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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 for ever, all my atoms, till I find you again... 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 ..
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love
northern-lights
the-amber-spyglass
the-golden-compass
the-subtle-knife
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Philip Pullman |
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Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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Philip Pullman |
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There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.
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Philip Pullman |
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You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.
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Philip Pullman |
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Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
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hope
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Philip Pullman |
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Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.
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Philip Pullman |
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Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child's life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?
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innocence
irony
politics
rivalry
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Philip Pullman |