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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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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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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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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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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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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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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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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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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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