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Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
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This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?
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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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I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
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Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
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In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
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She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
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Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
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You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
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I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it
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