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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Men
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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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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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