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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it you just think you do.
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.
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The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
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We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.
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I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
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... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.
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I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
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I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
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Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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Study broadly and without fear.
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When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
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All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of learned helplessness without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of learned blindness ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
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This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
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but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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