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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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.
John Green
I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
John Green
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
John Green
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
John Green
Random questions are the least random of all questions.
John Green
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
John Green
Is the labyrinth living or dying?
John Green
Her hair is ridiculous, I said. I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
John Green
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
John Green
This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
John Green
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
John Green
He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.
John Green
Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
John Green
Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
John Green
Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.
John Green
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
John Green
The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
John Green
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
John Green
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
John Green
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
John Green
