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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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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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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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When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
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So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
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Most loves don't last. But some do.
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You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. I'll look it up. No. With Me. At my house. Now
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The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
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We fell. We got up. We ran.
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No headboards were broken.
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I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
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That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
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I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.
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