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If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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