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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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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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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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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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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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