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“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else. And to do that you have to train hard and strive your utmost, and sometimes even that isn't enough, because another runner just might be more talented than you are. Here's the truth: 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. (That's the problem with Karl: he was afraid of failing, so he never really tried.)”
Phillip Pullman“This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your daemons en’t just nothing now; they’re part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they’ve gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They’ll never vanish. They’re just part of everything. And that’s exactly what’ll happen to you, I swear to you, I promise on my honor. You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.”
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials“Princess, princess, youngest daughter,Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t worth a rusty pin.Keep your promise, royal daughter,Open up and let me in!”
Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”
Bill Pullman“We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.”
Philip Pullman“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and it will be finished when I write the words ‘The End’.”
Philip Pullman“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”
Philip Pullman“I’m with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn’t care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So that’s what we’re doing, we’re getting on.”
Philip Pullman“I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.”
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