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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
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Nerdighters make me believe in America again.
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If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, I said. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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What matters to you defines your mattering.
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I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
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By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
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Love is just a shout in the void.
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I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
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