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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
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You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
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...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
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Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
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I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.
John Green
I was thinking about this girl you love so much, she said, And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn geniuses do.
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
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She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last the last shall be first the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
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I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
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All salvation is temporary, Augustus shot back. I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.
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But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
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If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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