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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Worst
Lying
Men

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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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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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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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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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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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