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Crux

by Gabriel Tallent (Goodreads Author)

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The Hill

by Harriet Clark

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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"Goodreads won’t process the new translation I’m reading for This re read. Always something new to get out of this one, it is the perfect book. Great intro in the new addition." — May 24, 2026 06:56PM

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Max’s Quotes

“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: inspiration, on-writing, storytelling

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“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.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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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 world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.

[The New York Times interview, 2000]”
― Philip Pullman

tags: basis, beauty, belief, book, books, offense, value, wisdom

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“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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“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. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

tags: love, physics

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