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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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