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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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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Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
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Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.
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The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
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She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
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Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
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It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
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Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
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I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.
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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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We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
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I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
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