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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
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People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
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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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Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young
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Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
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Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.
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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
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I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
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Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
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I think forever is an incorrect concept, I answered. He smirked. You're an incorrect concept. I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation.
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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
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And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
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Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.
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