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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Limitations
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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