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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Idea
Ideas
Good
Always

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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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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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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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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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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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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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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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