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 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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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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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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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. – Charlotte Brontë

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The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Fate

Fate loves the fearless. – James Russell Lowell

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