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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Is the labyrinth living or dying?
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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
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Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
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memories fall apart too.
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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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We fell. We got up. We ran.
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He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.
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The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
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No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
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I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.
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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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After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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