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In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
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still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?
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I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
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And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
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It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
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I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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JP shouted, TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER! Um, I said. We kissed, the Duke said. That's kinda gay, Keun said. I AM A GIRL. Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin, Keun said.
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Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
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Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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