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But you want to see shapes you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
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The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.
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You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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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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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley
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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
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I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.
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