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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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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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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.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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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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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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