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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
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What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
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That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
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Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. Did you like it? His dad asked. Yup, Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
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But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
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It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
John Green
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
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I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.
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I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
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