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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

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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
Teenager
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Honest
Greatest
World
Teenagers
Loyal
Readers

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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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 justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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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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