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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Waiting
Nothing
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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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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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 think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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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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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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