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The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
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I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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I think forever is an incorrect concept, I answered. He smirked. You're an incorrect concept. I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation.
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But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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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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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
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I think inspiration is always around it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
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Most loves don't last. But some do.
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I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.
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He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.
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What's that? The laundry basket? No, next to it. I don't see anything next to it. It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
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