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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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Men

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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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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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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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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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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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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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