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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Creative
Long
Hugely
Limitations
Limitation
Inspiring
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Ones

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