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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Nothing
Real
Good
Follow
Waiting

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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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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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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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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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