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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.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.
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Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
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But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
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After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
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I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
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I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.
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weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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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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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn geniuses do.
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Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
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There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.
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Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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