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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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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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Ideas
Good
Always

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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Except I didn't say eff
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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