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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. I'll look it up. No. With Me. At my house. Now
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In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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Her hair is ridiculous, I said. I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
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You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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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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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.
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Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.
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