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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Palette
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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 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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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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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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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