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Philip Pullman is a British film writer known for his adaptations of literary works. Born in October 1946, he is a prolific writer who has adapted several renowned novels into film scripts.

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“Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.”

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Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”

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Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“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 who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”

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Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“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.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

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Book:Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1

Source: Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”

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Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

About the Author

Born: October 19, 1946
Known for: Film writer
Quotes: 294

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