Spuddie

“You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can’t see things like the secret commonwealth, it’s because rationality’s vision is limited. The secret commonwealth is there. We can’t see it with rationality any more than we can weigh something with a microscope: it’s the wrong sort of instrument. We need to imagine as well as measure ...”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“Mr. Scoresby...told me there were truthtellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didn't care about the truth at all. They weren't interested. What they spoke wasn't the truth and it wasn't lies; it was bullshit. All they were interested in was their own performance.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“Your tribe is always bigger than you think.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander