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“ Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who’s exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is boring as shit.

— Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur

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“ I don’t find our relative insignificance disheartening at all: The main thing it tells me is that in a culture that worships celebrity and the purportedly extraordinary, ALL people are ordinary people. ALL people have the same responsibilities to themselves and to each other. Maybe the universe cares nothing for us, but WE care about each other. And most encouragingly, we care not just for our friends or family but for the whole enterprise of life—we care about strangers and about humpback whales and, most beautifully of all, we care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

— John Green

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“ The brambles and the thorns grew thick and thicker in a ticking thicket of bickering crickets. Farther along and stronger, bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, green and vivid on their lily pads. From the sky came the crying of flies, and the pilgrims leaped over a bleating sheep creeping knee-deep in a sleepy stream, in which swift and slippery snakes slid and slithered silkily, whispering sinful secrets.

— James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

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“ I can do a score of things that can’t be done. I can find a thing I cannot see and see a thing I cannot find. The first is time, the second is a spot before my eyes. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

— James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

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“ I am surely not the only writer who has the distinct sense that every sentence I write is surrounded by the ghosts of the sentences I could have written at that point, but didn’t.

— Philip Pullman

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“ I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that’s an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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“ So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

— Neil Gaiman

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“ And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dæmon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

— Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

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Was there a time when Pullman believed his grandfather’s stories about God?

‘When I was a small boy, I believed implicitly everything my grandfather told me. He was grandpa. He knew.’

Does he feel a sense of loss now?

‘Loss?’

Or sense of absence?

‘Loss because there’s something gone that I used to believe? I really don’t think so. I think it’s a gain. It’s a gain of a wider perspective. It would be like saying do you feel rather sad that we know the Earth’s not flat any more? No, actually, I feel rather better knowing the Earth’s round. It’s more interesting.’

— Intelligent Life: An Interview with Philip Pullman

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