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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to 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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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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