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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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Fairfax
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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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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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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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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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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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