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#1

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.

[The New York Times interview, 2000]”
― Philip Pullman

tags: basis, beauty, belief, book, books, offense, value, wisdom

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#2

“When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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#3

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

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#4

“Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.”
― Philip Pullman

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#5

“Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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#6

“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: evil, good, lies, love, mrs-coulter, truth

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#7

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#8

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#9

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: donna-tartt, secret-history

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#10

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#11

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#12

“Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon. “No,” he said, putting down his fork.
“It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way.
“I don’t believe it.”
“I saw it,” said Bunny. “It was on television.”
“How did they get there? When did this happen?"”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#13

“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

tags: fair, looks-can-be-decieving

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#14

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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#15

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

tags: life

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#16

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
― Harold Pinter

tags: postmodernism

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#17

“The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter

tags: silence-communication

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#18

“I can't really articulate what I feel,”
― Harold Pinter

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#19

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: death, murder

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#20

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights

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#21

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy

tags: art, buildings, greed, hate, humor, intolerance, louis-armstrong

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#22

“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: hannibal, murder

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#23

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#24

“Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#25

“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#26

“Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#27

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: hannibal, horror, mental-illness, psychiatry, psychology, schizophrenia, science, the-silence-of-the-lambs

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#28

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: blue, night, night-sky, painted, sky, strokes

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