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" That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. "
Philip Pullman
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" Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad. "
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" The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. "
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" Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. "
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" If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care. "
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" Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. "
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" The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing. "
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" I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. "
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" Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well. "
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" I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! "
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" I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found. "
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" Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. "
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" It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. "
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" The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being. "
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" One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. "
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" True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. "
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" Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it. "
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" What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. "
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" You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts. "
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" And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? "
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" We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. "
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" I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. "
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" If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. "
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" I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. "
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" The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele. "
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" My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. "
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" I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief. "
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" Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. "
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" My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. "
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" Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop. "
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" Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will find his or her own way to the theatre. "
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