Philip Pullman citáty
Philip Pullman
Datum narození: 19. říjen 1946
Další jména:Ֆիլիպ Պուլլման, فیلیپ پولمن
Philip Pullman je britský spisovatel fantasy a přední představitel britského ateismu.
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„I don’t suppose that was a good thing for them to say. You might not have believed in angels.“
— Philip Pullman
Context: They lay back, well fed and comfortable in the flower-scented night, and listened to Mary tell her story.
She began just before she first met Lyra, telling them about the work she was doing at the Dark Matter Research group, and the funding crisis. How much time she’d had to spend asking for money, and how little time there’d been left for research!
But Lyra’s coming had changed everything, and so quickly: within a matter of days she’d left her world altogether.
"I did as you told me," she said. "I made a program — that’s a set of instructions — to let the Shadows talk to me through the computer. They told me what to do. They said they were angels, and — well…"
"If you were a scientist," said Will, "I don’t suppose that was a good thing for them to say. You might not have believed in angels."
"Ah, but I knew about them. I used to be a nun, you see. I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all."
Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
„You cannot change what you are, only what you do.“
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
„People are too complicated to have simple labels.“
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
„She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it.“
— Philip Pullman
Context: She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
Thus she stood, bow in hand, indifferent, dead in life.
Dying thoughts of Lena Feldt as a Spectre "eats the life out of her", Ch. 15 : Bloodmoss <!-- p. 315 -->
„My time is over," he said. "The knife knows when to leave one hand and settle in another, and I know how to tell“
— Philip Pullman
Context: "Now," said Giacomo Paradisi, "here you are, take the knife, it is yours."
"I don't want it," said Will. "I don't want anything to do with it."
"You haven't got the choice," said the old man. "You are the bearer now."
"I thought you said you was," said Lyra.
"My time is over," he said. "The knife knows when to leave one hand and settle in another, and I know how to tell..."
Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
