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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

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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
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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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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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 who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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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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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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