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Know yourself and go in swinging.

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Swinging

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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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