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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

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Philip Pullman's Popular Quotes

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

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We have to learn everything we do.

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What is worth having is worth working for.

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From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

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Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those w…

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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

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Imagination is a form of seeing

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Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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