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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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