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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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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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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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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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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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