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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
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The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
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By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
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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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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
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I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
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I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
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But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley
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