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All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
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But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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From the front Rdar announces, Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car? Whenever I eat a GoFast bar, Ben says, I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.
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We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.
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The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
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My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
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If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
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Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?
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When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
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You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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