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Better readers are better thinkers.

James Patterson

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max
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It's okay, Ig. said Fang. Just give it your best shot. Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.
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This is not a democracy, I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. It's a Maxocracy.
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Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
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I stared at her in amazement. How do you even live with yourself?...You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your vei
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Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.
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Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it. -Fang
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The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
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Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.
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Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.
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I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.
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We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog
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Great, they give blind kids guns, I said, trying to lessen his horror. I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
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Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max
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Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.
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Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries. I opened my eyes wide. No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.
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