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What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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What can we do? Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
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I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
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And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral. Kaitlyn, I said. Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top? Kaitlyn, I said.
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Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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