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  1. Philip Pullman _ Daemon Voices

    I wish I'd seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He's killing people in order to save their souls....It's much more interesting, because much more realistic, when there's a struggle between different goods.
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  2. Philip Pullman _ Daemon Voices

    I was condemned to be burnt myself recently, or my books were. An article in the _Catholic Herald_ said that my _His Dark Materials_ was "far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry {Potter}"; it was "a million times more sinister." Naturally, I'm very proud of this distinction, and I asked the publishers to print it in the paperback of _The Subtle Knife_.
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  3. Philip Pullman _ Daemon Voices

    Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.
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  4. Philip Pullman _ Daemon Voices

    The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his letters about the painter's fear of the blank canvas - the canvas, he said, is far more afraid of the painter.
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  5. Philip Pullman _ Daemon Voices

    Eve was tempted not by wealth or love but by knowledge."
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