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That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
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I've gotten really hot since you went blind.
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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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I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
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For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
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Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.
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One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
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I can't remember, because I never knew.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.- Paper Towns
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The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
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I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
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