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He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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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She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.
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I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
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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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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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But it is a pipe. No, it's not, I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
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All hurt is brain hurt.
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That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
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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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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
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I love you present tense.
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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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maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
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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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High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
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But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
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