"Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them."

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Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

Patrick Ness

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“If I do something for a public space, it's not something that I have in my head and go, "Oh that's a good location. I should put it here." That for me never exists. When I see the site, then I have an idea that is new and I would never do unless it's there. It's the space or the people there, which will give me the idea.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?”
“Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.”
“Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.”
“The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where itâ€™s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where theyâ€™re going to be.”
“The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a MÃ¤nnerbÃ¼nd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.”
“The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.”
“I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20â€²s and 30â€²s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.”

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