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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.
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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
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Me: If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot. Mom: You don't take pot, for starters. Me: See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
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I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
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That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
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Teenagers think they are invincible
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I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
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And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
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And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.
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Funerals...are for the living.
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
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