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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
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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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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
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You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate I had dying declarations.
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You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.
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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
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He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
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I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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I thought you hung the moon.
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Everything's uglier close up, she said. Not you, I answered.
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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.
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To be human is to catch the falling person.
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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.
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As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.
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