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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
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Real
Swinging
Hurts
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Might

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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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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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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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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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