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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
Talking
Running
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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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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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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