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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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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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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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