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They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
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Cold one day, sweet the next irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
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It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
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I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
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Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
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I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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What happened? During the kiss? No, with you and Caroline. Oh, he said. And then after a second, Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
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