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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
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Bite
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Stories
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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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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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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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