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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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.
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Ma'am, Augustus said, nodding toward her, Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
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The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
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I'll just go over to the Duke's, I said. Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.
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We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
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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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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)
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I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
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What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .
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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
John Green
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
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Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
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