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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
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You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
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…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
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But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.
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So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.
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You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
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We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.
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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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The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.
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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
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weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
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I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
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