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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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Good
Always
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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