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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. "
Philip Pullman
Silence
Forever
Need
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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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" 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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" Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. "
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" My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. "
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" One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently. "
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" The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele. "
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" Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. "
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" Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it. "
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" I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. "
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Long
" The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. "
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Function
" 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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First
Me
" If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care. "
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Sign
Care
" I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. "
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Daring
Way
Most
" Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious. "
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Living
Mysterious
" My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. "
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Me
Parents
" I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change. "
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Doing
Change
Book
" Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet. "
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Up
Wood
Made
" 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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Studying
Reading
Education
" 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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Life
" I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular. "
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Jazz
" 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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You
Day
" It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. "
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Concert
Children
" 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. "
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" Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade. "
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Trade
Healthy
" 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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