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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
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Biggest
Friend
Heard
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Tragedy

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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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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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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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 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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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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