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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
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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