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What matters to you defines your mattering.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
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You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
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That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
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And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.
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You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
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We fell. We got up. We ran.
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I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
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Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
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That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
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Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
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...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.
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