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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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