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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
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We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
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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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One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: Do you like anyone right now? - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, do you like me right now.
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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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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
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