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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

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Philip Pullman

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful. . . I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Carrying, Mother, Parent, Priests, Reproachful, Upset
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Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses. ”

Clever, Writing, Stories, Literary, Know

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. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Feelings, Folk, Growing Up, Lions, Settles, Suppose

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

Cost, Life, Lying, Oxford, Reality

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Added, Doe, Hour, Life, Thinking, Worry

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Brilliant, Done, Fairy Tale, Hard, Stories
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