Quote by Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not,

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman

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I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. – Philip Pullman

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What I couldnt help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than Id learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. – Philip Pullman

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! – Philip Pullman

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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. – Henry Ward Beecher

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He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. – Author Unknown

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When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung

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