Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials Omnibus

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  • Icahas quoted5 years ago
    Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books
  • Icahas quoted5 years ago
    But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do. Our work here is first rescue, then punishment. It en’t gratification for upset feelings. Our feelings don’t matter. If we rescue the kids but we can’t punish the Gobblers, we’ve done the main task. But if we aim to punish the Gobblers first and by doing so lose the chance of rescuing the kids, we’ve failed.
  • Bambang Rahmantyohas quoted7 years ago
    ‘… Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’
  • Bambang Rahmantyohas quoted7 years ago
    He opened the Bible again and pointed it out to Lyra. She read:
    “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.…”
  • Bambang Rahmantyohas quoted7 years ago
    men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season.
  • Bambang Rahmantyohas quoted7 years ago
    But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don’t like?”
    “Well, then, you’re discontented, en’t you? There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.
  • Bambang Rahmantyohas quoted7 years ago
    strike a day too soon is as bad as striking a hundred miles off. To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do
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