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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

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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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Worth
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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