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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Men
Crowd
Crowds
Capable
Thought

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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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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 be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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 then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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