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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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I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.
John Green
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
John Green
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
John Green
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
John Green
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
John Green
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
John Green
Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
John Green
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
John Green
Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.
John Green
I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.
John Green
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
John Green
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
John Green
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green
You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.
John Green
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
John Green
Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
John Green
Okay is BURSTING with sensuality
John Green
You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
John Green
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
John Green
Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
John Green
