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Know yourself and go in swinging.

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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
Swinging

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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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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 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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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...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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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