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.

— Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Quotes

And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

— Philip Pullman

Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.” An interview with Philip Pullman.

— Philip Pullman

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.

— Philip Pullman

Mrs. Coulter selected her lovers for their power and influence, but it did no harm if they were good-looking. Did she ever become fond of a lover? Not once. She could not keep her servants, either.

— Philip Pullman

You know, it isn’t really surprising that there are things about ourselves that still remain a mystery to us,” he said. “Maybe we should be comforted that the knowledge is there, even if it’s withheld for a while.

— Philip Pullman

When you’re young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don’t.

— Philip Pullman

Of all the dangers that threaten us at the beginning of the third millennium – the degradation of the environment, the increasing undemocratic power of the great corporations, the continuing threats to peace in regions full of decaying nuclear weapons, and so on – one of the biggest dangers of all comes from fundamentalist religion... From the Christian conservatives in the USA to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

— Philip Pullman

Because Lyra now realized, if she hadn’t done so before, that all the fear in her nature was drawn to Mrs. Coulter as a compass needle drawn to the Pole.

— Philip Pullman

The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested.

— Philip Pullman

Every atom of me and every atom of you... we’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and in pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t be able to take just one, they’ll have to take two, one for you and one for me.

— Philip Pullman

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;.

— Philip Pullman

He was twenty-four, ready for adventure, and happy to go wherever the winds took him. He’d better be, as Hester reminded him; he wasn’t going to go anywhere else.

— Philip Pullman

I’m a tin princess. Like chess: I come all the way across the board and turned into a queen, Still only tin, though.

— Philip Pullman

She’d hardly been aware of feeling anxious, but that was because anxiety was everywhere, built into the very molecules of the world, or so it had seemed.

— Philip Pullman

And when Rusakov discovered Dust, at last there was physical proof that something happened when innocence changed into experience.

— Philip Pullman

We shouldn’t be afraid of the obvious, because stories are about life, and life is full of obvious things like food and sleep and love and courage which you don’t stop needing just because you’re a good reader.

— Philip Pullman

Streite mit allem, was du willst, aber nicht mit deiner eigenen Natur.

— Philip Pullman

One strange thing about stories is that you sometimes know how long they’re going to be, even before you’ve begun thinking about them.

— Philip Pullman

The two old men couldn’t help smiling, but whereas Farder Coram’s smile was a hesitant, rich, complicated expression that trembled across his face like sunlight chasing shadows on a windy March day, John Faa’s smile was slow, warm, plain, and kindly.

— Philip Pullman

Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it... I trust the reader.

— Philip Pullman
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