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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The last time I was this scared, I peed myself. The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
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But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
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He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
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I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
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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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Study broadly and without fear.
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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
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I spy with my little eye a great story.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last the last shall be first the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
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The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
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I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.
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When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.
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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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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.- Paper Towns
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What matters to you defines your mattering.
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