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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable. Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
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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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I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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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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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
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What's the meaning of life? Other people.
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That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
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I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
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You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
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I make a gesture that is intended to convey, Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like, and probably actually conveys, Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
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I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
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If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
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