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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.
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The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
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Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.
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I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
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And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
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...And in freedom, most people find sin.
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I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
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Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
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Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
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I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
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You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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