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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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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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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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