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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.
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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.
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There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.
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How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.
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Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.
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High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
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And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.
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The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.
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She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.
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You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
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I love you present tense.
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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
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There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water
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I can't remember, because I never knew.
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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