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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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