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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
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By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
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You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
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