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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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Thing
Worth
Learning

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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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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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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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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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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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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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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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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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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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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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