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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
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I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.
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I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
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So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
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He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
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