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I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.
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My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.
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The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.
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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
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I don't think you're dying, I said. I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.
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