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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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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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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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