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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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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Study broadly and without fear.
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
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I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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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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It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last the last shall be first the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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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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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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Love is just a shout in the void.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
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I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
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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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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
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