For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
Philip PullmanI want to fight, Becky. Can you understand that? I want struggle, I want danger. You know, Sally said something to me once: we were talking about happiness and what that might mean. She said she didn't want to be /happy/, that was a weak, passive sort of thing; she wanted to be alive and active. She wanted /work/. That's the spirit I like. That's what I want; and my work is a rough dirty dangerous kind of work. Oh, I want other things too. I want to write a play and see Henry Irving perform in it. I want to swank about town smoking Havanas and have supper with pretty girls in the Cafe Royal. I want to play poker on a Mississippi riverboat. I want to see Dan Goldberg get into Parliament. I want to see you go to university and get a first-class degree. Sally. . . Sally can do anything we wants, by me. There's a whole world I want, Becky.
Philip PullmanIt was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.
Philip PullmanTag: reading writing freedom-of-speech
All good things pass away.
Philip PullmanThat’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip PullmanNo one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
Philip PullmanWhen you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
Philip PullmanTag: life opportunities
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
Philip PullmanYou cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Philip PullmanTag: life change be-yourself self-determination
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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