Philip Pullman

You are dead- what am I speaking to? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#iorek #lee-scoresby #afterlife

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#food

As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#art

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#evil #first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #hubris

Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#love #love

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#nature

All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#love-hurts #love

Argue with anyone else, but don't argue with your own nature. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#life

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#sociology

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. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education #everything #foolish #i #interest