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John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
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One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
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I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
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I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
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But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.
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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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