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Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands. No he has kind of amazing hands.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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One of the others shouted a translation: The beautiful couple is beautiful.
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it is the nature of stars to cross
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How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.
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The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
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Everything's uglier close up, she said. Not you, I answered.
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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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the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
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I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
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And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.
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