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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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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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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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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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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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 too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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