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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Wildest
Hunt
Hunts
Chase
Bite
Bites
Stories
Things

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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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