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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

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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
Matter
Picking
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Fall

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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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