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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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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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like. – Lemony Snicket

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Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forester

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Coincidences are little hellos from heaven. – Theresa Caputo, Long Island Medium [S7, E5, 2016]

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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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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. – Thomas Aquinas

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