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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
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The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread! he screamed. CHICKEN! the crowd responded. Rice! PEAS! And then, all together: WE GOT HIGHER SATs. Hip Hip Hip Hooray! the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
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Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.
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But you want to see shapes you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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