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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.
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Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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Okay is BURSTING with sensuality
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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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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
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I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
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And how are you feeling? asked Patrick.Oh, I'm grand. Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
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How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.
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If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.
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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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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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The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.
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The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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