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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Learning
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Thing

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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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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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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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