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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Looking
Even
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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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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 don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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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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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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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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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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