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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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