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there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.
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To be human is to catch the falling person.
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depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
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Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
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This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.
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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.
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If I could do it all over again, he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.
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Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
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We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
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I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
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The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread! he screamed. CHICKEN! the crowd responded. Rice! PEAS! And then, all together: WE GOT HIGHER SATs. Hip Hip Hip Hooray! the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
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But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
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I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
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There's not even real *popularity* at my school. That, Coli said emphatically, is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
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No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
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