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Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Yeah, that's true, I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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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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We are now as I wished we could be then.
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In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
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She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die
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Something invisible snapped inside her.
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In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
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Study broadly and without fear.
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I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
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. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
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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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Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
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When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
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You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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