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Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
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It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
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That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.
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Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
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I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
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The last time I was this scared, I peed myself. The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
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I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.
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That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
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I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
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I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
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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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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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All salvation is temporary, Augustus shot back. I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.
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