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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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