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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.
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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
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Something invisible snapped inside her.
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You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
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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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I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
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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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You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.
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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.
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As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
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One of the others shouted a translation: The beautiful couple is beautiful.
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