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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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Fairfax
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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