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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
John Green
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Yeah, that's true, I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
John Green
The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John Green
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
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This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
John Green
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
John Green
but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
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You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
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Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
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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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But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
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The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.
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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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I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
John Green
And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home.
John Green
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.
John Green
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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.
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