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I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.
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If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
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So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.
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