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If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
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All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of learned helplessness without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of learned blindness ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
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All hurt is brain hurt.
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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
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Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
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By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.
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Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.
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And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
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I thought you hung the moon.
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...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).
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At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain. I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
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And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.
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