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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
Good
Follow
Waiting
Nothing
Real

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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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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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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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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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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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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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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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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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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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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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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