We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race — I will come first — and you w… - Philip Pullman
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We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race — I will come first — and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no choice but to obey! Can the hands of that old clock in the corner decide to stop? Can the spring in your watch decide to wind itself up and run backward? No! They have no choice. And nor has the future, once you have wound it up.
Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books.
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Sir Philip Pullman
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Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman
This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet. It's not easy to tell.
I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart.
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
