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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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Fairfax
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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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 too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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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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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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