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Sir Philip Pullman è uno scrittore britannico, famoso per la trilogia fantasy Queste oscure materie. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Ottobre 1946  •  Altri nomi فیلیپ پولمن, Ֆիլիպ Պուլլման
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“Aveva detto una volta a Serafina Pekkala che a lui volare non importava, che era soltanto un lavoro come un altro, ma non parlava sul serio. Levarsi in alto, con un buon vento alle spalle e un nuovo mondo davanti: cosa poteva esserci di meglio in questa vita?”

Philip Pullman libro La lama sottile

The Subtle Knife

“« Quando hai smesso di credere in Dio» continuò Will, « hai smesso di credere al bene e al male?»
« No. Ma ho smesso di credere che ci fossero una forza del bene e una forza del male fuori di noi. E sono giunta alla convinzione che bene e male sono nomi per ciò che fanno le persone, non per quello che sono. La sola cosa che possiamo dire è che questa è una buona azione perché aiuta qualcuno, o che quest'altra è cattiva perché fa male a qualcuno. Le persone sono troppo complesse perché le si possa etichettare».”

Philip Pullman libro Il cannocchiale d'ambra

Mary Malone
Queste oscure materie, Il cannocchiale d'ambra

“Ma tu pensa ad Adamo ed Eva come una specie di numero immaginario, come la radice quadrata di meno uno; non potrai mai vedere nessuna prova concreta della sua esistenza, ma se la includi nelle tue equazioni potrai calcolare tutta una serie di cose che in sua assenza non si potrebbero neppure concepire.”

Philip Pullman libro La bussola d'oro

Origine: Queste oscure materie, La bussola d'oro, p. 330

“Certo. E, come quello degli scrittori, è una gazza ladra: perché noi rubiamo da tutto e da tutti.”

Philip Pullman

dall'intervista di Fiorella Iannucci, Il Messaggero, 27 aprile 2007, p. 22

“Ogni religione monoteistica finisce col perseguitare gli altri, e ucciderli perché non li accetta. È accaduto in ogni periodo storico, e accade ancora oggi.”

Philip Pullman

Origine: Da Thirdway. The Modern World Through Christian Eyes, febbraio 2002; citato in Pullman e il cristianesimo http://www.questeoscurematerie.it/content/view/23/40/.

“La storia narrata dal cristianesimo dà a noi esseri umani un ruolo molto importante, di primo piano. Noi siamo quelli che Gesù è venuto a redimere dalle conseguenze del peccato, che i nostri genitori… be', il resto lo sa. È una storia piena di pathos, e noi siamo proprio al centro, e molto dipende dalle nostre decisioni. È una posizione emozionante in cui trovarsi, ma purtroppo non coincide molto con la versione, ben più convincente, che ci è offerta dall'evoluzione darwiniana; e il resoconto scientifico è intellettualmente molto più persuasivo. Estremamente persuasivo.”

Philip Pullman

da Thirdway. The Modern World Through Christian Eyes, febbraio 2002; citato in Pullman e il cristianesimo http://www.questeoscurematerie.it/content/view/23/40/

“La mia intenzione è raccontare una storia: in primo luogo perché la storia viene da me e vuol essere raccontata.”

Philip Pullman

da Thirdway. The Modern World Through Christian Eyes, febbraio 2002; citato in Pullman e il cristianesimo http://www.questeoscurematerie.it/content/view/23/40/

“Il mio è un atto d'accusa alla teocrazia, che non sempre è solo religiosa. Non era forse teocratica l'Unione Sovietica di Stalin? Il libro sacro era Il Capitale, il KGB, l'Inquisizione, la classe privilegiata il partito.”

Philip Pullman

Origine: Dall'intervista di Fiorella Iannucci, Il Messaggero, 27 aprile 2007, p. 22.

“Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli.
Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.”

Philip Pullman libro La bussola d'oro

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman: Frasi in inglese

“Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn’t be imagined without it.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome

“The first ghosts trembled with hope, and their excitement passed back like a ripple over the long line behind them, young children and aged parents alike looking up and ahead with delight and wonder as the first stars they had seen for centuries shone through into their poor starved eyes.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 26 : The Abyss

“Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if they open it and read it, they don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.”

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Philip Pullman libro The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ3VcbAfd4w <br class="br">The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010)

“What work have I got to do, then?” said Will, but went on at once, “No, on second thought, don’t tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it’ll feel as if I didn’t have a choice, and if I don’t do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

“Then you have already taken the first steps toward wisdom,” said Xaphania.
Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 37 : The Dunes

“Dark matter is what my research team is looking for. No one knows what it is. There's more stuff out there in the universe than we can see, that's the point. We can see the stars and the galaxies and the things that shine, but for it all to hang together and not fly apart, there needs to be a lot more of it — to make gravity work, you see. But no one can detect it. So there are lots of different research projects trying to find out what it is, and this is one of them. … We think it's some kind of elementary particle. Something quite different from anything discovered so far. But the particles are very hard to detect.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Dr. Mary Malone, in Ch. 4 : Trepanning
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“Lyra has a part to play in all this, and a major one. The irony is that she must do it all without realizing what she's doing. She can be helped, though, and if my plan with the Tokay had succeeded, she would have been safe for a little longer. I would have liked to spare her a journey to the North.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

The Master to the Librarian, in Ch. 2 : The Idea of North
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

“She soon found the door the alethiometer had told her about. The sign on it said DARK MATTER RESEARCH UNIT, and under it someone had scribbled R. I. P. Another hand had added in pencil DIRECTOR: LAZARUS.
Lyra made nothing of that. She knocked, and a woman's voice said, "Come in."”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 4 : Trepanning

“Do not lie to the Scholar.”

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The alethiometer to Lyra, in Ch. 4 : Trepanning
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“The lizard dragged the priest’s body back to her nest, and her children feasted very well. As for the rifle, it lay in the grass where Father Gomez had laid it down, quietly turning to rust.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 36 : The Broken Arrow

“When you look at organised religion of whatever sort — whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism — wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.”

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Philip Pullman

Surefish interview (2002)

“Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

First line, introducing Lyra Belacqua (also known as Lyra Silvertongue), in Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

“Without their tiger gods, the tribe declined into fear and melancholy and begged her to allow them to worship her instead, only to be rejected with contempt; for what good would their worship do her? she asked. It had done nothing for the tigers.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 2 : The Witches

“But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra’s had moved them a single inch.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 37 : The Dunes

“How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what's going to happen? I don't intend to do that, I promise you.”

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Lyra, in Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

“On an unseasonably, uncomfortably, unnaturally warm day in mid-October I sit here trying not to think about global warming. But it's difficult. Is this fear going to pass away like the other fears I remember — nuclear war, overpopulation leading to mass starvation, the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain? Well, those problems haven't gone away exactly. The new one just seems bigger than all the rest.”

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Philip Pullman

Entry at Philip-Pullman.com (October 2006) http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=128

“You said I was a warrior. You told me that was my nature, and I shouldn’t argue with it. Father, you were wrong. I fought because I had to. I can’t choose my nature, but I can choose what I do. And I will choose, because now I'm free.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 31 : Authority's End

“I hold the subtle knife on behalf of the Guild.”

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Giacomo Paradisi in Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“Her dæmon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall.”

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Introducing Pantalaimon, also called Pan, in Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

““I wish…” she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 23 : The Bridge to the Stars

““Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?” said Lyra.
“Why ever would it? If he’s there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.””

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 19 : Lyra and her Death

“The Master of Jordan College is a foolish old man. Why he gave it to her I can't imagine; you need several years of intensive study to make any sense of it at all.”

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Mrs. Coulter, on Lyra having the alethiometer, in Ch. 9 : Theft
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“"But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?"
"Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold 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."”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Lyra and the seaman Jerry, in Ch. 10 : The Consul and the Bear
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

“Who is this man who's got the knife?”

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Will, in Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 23 : No Way Out

“It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined. It was very like a clock, or a compass, for there were hands pointing to places around the dial, but instead of the hours or the points of the compass there were several little pictures, each of them painted with extraordinary precision, as if on ivory with the finest and slenderest sable brush. She turned the dial around to look at them all. There was an anchor; an hourglass surmounted by a skull; a chameleon, a bull, a beehive… Thirty-six altogether, and she couldn't even guess what they meant.”

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Lyra, investigating the alethiometer, in Ch. 4 : The Alethiometer
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

“Had she thought there was no meaning in life, no purpose, when God had gone? Yes, she had thought that.
“Well, there is now,” she said aloud, and again, louder: “There is now!””

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Mary in Ch. 34 : There is Now
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)

“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won’t be nothing. We’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we’ll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we’ll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 23 : No Way Out

“Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.”

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Lee Scoresby to Stanislaus Grumman in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“It was all very well, the alethiometer telling her to be truthful, but she knew what would happen if she told the whole truth. She had to tread carefully and just avoid direct lies.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Origine: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 4 : Trepanning

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