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Funerals...are for the living.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.
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In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
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True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
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Study broadly and without fear.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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