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I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
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Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.
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A paper town for a paper girl.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
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Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
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The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
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Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
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You will go to the paper towns and never come back.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
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I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
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We fell. We got up. We ran.
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn geniuses do.
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True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
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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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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder
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How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
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I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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