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"When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?"
"No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."

Philip Pullman

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Philip Pullman

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

Philip Pullman

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

Philip Pullman

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman

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Born: October 19, 1946 (age 78)

Bio: Philip Pullman is a British writer. He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

Known for:

Northern Lights (1995)
The Subtle Knife (1997)
The Amber Spyglass (2000)
The Ruby in the Smoke (1985)
Lyra's Oxford (2003)

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