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Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
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Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.
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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.
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He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love is just a shout in the void.
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
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Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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To be human is to catch the falling person.
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Eternity bids thee to forget.
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Random questions are the least random of all questions.
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People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
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I think inspiration is always around it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
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