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It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
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I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.
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There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.
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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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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.
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The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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Nerdighters make me believe in America again.
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But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
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Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.
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