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I spy with my little eye a great story.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.
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I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
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It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .
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It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
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Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
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Eternity bids thee to forget.
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She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
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I don't think you're dying, I said. I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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Ma'am, Augustus said, nodding toward her, Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
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