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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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 just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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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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