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March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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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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That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
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The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.
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Random questions are the least random of all questions.
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The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
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I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.
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For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
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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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I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
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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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They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
John Green
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
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You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.
John Green
I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
John Green
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
John Green
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
John Green
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
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