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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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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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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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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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