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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

“He showed me that to rebel was right and just, when you considered what the agents of the Authority did in His name…. And I thought of the Bolvangar children, and the other terrible mutilitations I have seen in our own southlands; and he told me of many more hideous cruelties dealt out in the Authority’s name—of how they capture witches, in some worlds, and burn them alive, sisters. Yes, witches like ourselves…
He opened my eyes. He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Ruta Skadi in Ch. 13 : Æsahættr
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

“Magisterium' and 'oblation' are church terms, they are terms of church organisation. These are administrative things. These are bureaucratic things. How can an attack on those be construed as an attack on God? These are human things which human beings have constructed in order to wield power. That's not a contentious thing to say. That is simply true. These are forms of political organisation and no more than that.”

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Philip Pullman

Surefish interview (2002)

“Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.”

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Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

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

“In Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 13 : Fencing

“Now here are these children who have gone through great adventures and learned wonderful things and would therefore be in a position to do great things to help other people. But they're taken away. He doesn't let them. For the sake of taking them off to a perpetual school holiday or something, he kills them all in a train crash. I think that's ghastly. It's a horrible message.”

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Philip Pullman

On The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Surefish interview (2002)

“She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.”

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

“He'd learned that the object of a school fight was not to gain points for style but to force your enemy to give in, which meant hurting him more than he was hurting you. He knew that you had to be willing to hurt someone else, too, and he'd found out that not many people were, when it came to it; but he knew that he was.
So this wasn't unfamiliar to him, but he hadn't fought against a nearly grown man armed with a knife before, and at all costs he must keep the man from picking it up now that he'd dropped it.”

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

“So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 10 : Wheels

“When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?”

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"No. But 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."
Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)

“Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?”

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

“Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.”

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Origine: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 2 : Balthamos and Baruch