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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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