Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.
You are dead- what am I speaking to? - Philip Pullman
You are dead- what am I speaking to?
- Philip Pullman
We have to learn everything we do. - Philip Pullman
We have to learn everything we do.
What is worth having is worth working for. - Philip Pullman
What is worth having is worth working for.
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… - Philip Pullman
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…
From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one. - Philip Pullman
From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. - Philip Pullman
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others? - Philip Pullman
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. - Philip Pullman
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Imagination is a form of seeing - Philip Pullman
Imagination is a form of seeing
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