Philip Pullman Quote
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t. It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.
Philip Pullman
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t. It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.
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About Philip Pullman
In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. Michael Morpurgo said: “The range and depth of his imagination and of his learning certainly make him the Tolkien of our day.”