There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP! Philip Pullman More Quotes by Philip Pullman More Quotes From Philip Pullman All good things pass away. Philip Pullman good-things passing-away When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. Philip Pullman knows opportunity years If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight. Philip Pullman cost fighting war You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. Philip Pullman fate destiny speak We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. Philip Pullman despair fate destiny He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven. Philip Pullman hard-work heaven thinking Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Philip Pullman broken self men The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes. Philip Pullman maps adults way 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. Philip Pullman knives technology knowing Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive. Philip Pullman forgiving law names On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man. Philip Pullman girl eye heart We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere. Philip Pullman his-dark-materials republic heaven Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed. Philip Pullman fighting feelings giving Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound. Philip Pullman dragons fighting children The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake. Philip Pullman powerful christian mistake I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. Philip Pullman fighting church feelings What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if 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. Philip Pullman fighting healing thinking I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all. Philip Pullman powerful christian mistake Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically. Philip Pullman eyebrows fate rage Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed. Philip Pullman adults intelligent children
