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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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So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.
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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
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Love is tied to truth.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
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Books are like tweets, except longer.
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You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
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In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. I'll look it up. No. With Me. At my house. Now
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.
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I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
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The last time I was this scared, I peed myself. The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
John Green
Funerals...are for the living.
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