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So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
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Else
Someone
Best
Everything
Done
Enough
Trying
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Least

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Hear, hear, said the Dog, raising her head. It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.
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I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
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