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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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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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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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