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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Citáty Philip Pullman
„Podle mého názoru nejsou dětské knihy o nic méně hodnotné, než knihy pro dospělé. To je to, po čem jsem vždy toužil - stejný přístup, pokud jde o hodnocení dětské literatury a také stejnou šanci získat pozornost.“
2002
Zdroj: [Týden v Británii, bbc.co.uk, 2002-01-26, 2020-08-04, http://www.bbc.co.uk/czech/vikend/tyden020126.shtml]
„I don’t suppose that was a good thing for them to say. You might not have believed in angels.“
— Philip Pullman, Jeho temné esence
Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Kontext: 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."
„You cannot change what you are, only what you do.“
— Philip Pullman, kniha Northern Lights
Zdroj: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice
„People are too complicated to have simple labels.“
— Philip Pullman, kniha The Amber Spyglass
Zdroj: The Amber Spyglass
„It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself.“
— Philip Pullman, Jeho temné esence
The Master and Lyra, in Ch. 4 : The Alethiometer
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)
Kontext: "Lyra, I'm going to give you something, and you must promise to keep it private. Will you swear to that?"
"Yes," Lyra said.
He crossed to the desk and took from a drawer a small package wrapped in black velvet. When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. It might have been a compass or something of the sort.
"What is it?" she said.
"It's an alethiometer. It's one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. It would be better if Mrs. Coulter didn't know about it. Your uncle — "
"But what does it do?"
"It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it's getting lighter — hurry back to your room before anyone sees you."
„I just don’t like the conclusions Lewis comes to,“
Slate interview, 2015
Kontext: His (C. S. Lewis's) work is not frivolous in the way that Tolkien is frivolous, though it seems odd to call a novel of great intricacy and enormous popularity frivolous. I just don’t like the conclusions Lewis comes to, after all that analysis, the way he shuts children out from heaven, or whatever it is, on the grounds that the one girl is interested in boys. She’s a teenager! Ah, it’s terrible: Sex — can’t have that. And yet I respect Lewis more than I do Tolkien.
„What Asriel's done has shaken everything up, Mr. Scoresby, shaken it more profoundly than it's ever been shaken before.“
— Philip Pullman, Jeho temné esence
Stanislaus Grumman to Lee Scoresby in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
Kontext: What Asriel's done has shaken everything up, Mr. Scoresby, shaken it more profoundly than it's ever been shaken before. These doorways and windows that I spoke of — they open in unexpected places now. It's hard to navigate, but this wind is a fair one.
„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, Jeho temné esence
Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Kontext: "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."
