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

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Crowds
Capable
Thought
Men

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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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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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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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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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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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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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