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I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
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Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.
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It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
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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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Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
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So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.
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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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