"Men do monstrous things but if you call……" — Patrick Ness
"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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197 Quotes by Patrick Ness
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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…
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world,…
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking…
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But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes…
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves…
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet…
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same…
— James Buchan
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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due…
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden…
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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved…
— Rufus Wainwright
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to…
— Erica Jong
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The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to…
— Tori Amos
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
— Frances Mayes
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You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
— Millicent Fenwick
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
— Tertullian
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