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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. Funny, he said. Don't call my boobs funny, I answered.
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Augustus, I said. Really. You don't have to do this. Sure I do, he said. I found my Wish. God, you're the best, I told him. I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, he answered.
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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
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I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
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What can we do? Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
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I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
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