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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
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We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
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But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
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I do love you and what else matters but that
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I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
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There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
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And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
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I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
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I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
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i wanted more time so we could fall in love.
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Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
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