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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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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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