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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Beauty
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Looks
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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 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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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of 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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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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