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when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood...more

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

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The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of ...more

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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex ...more

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material wor...more

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I...more

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material wor...more

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I...more

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You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you...more

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I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I en...more