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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
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You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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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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These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.
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I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
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I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
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Funerals...are for the living.
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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
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Oh, my god, Augustus said. i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes. i was thirteen, i said again, although of course i was only thinking crush crush crush crush crush. I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.
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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you it's something that happens with you.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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