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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
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Literary Critic
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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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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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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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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