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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
Bite
Bites
Stories
Things
Wildest
Hunt
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Chase

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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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 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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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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 equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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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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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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