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

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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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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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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