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91a43a9
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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reading
power-of-words
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John Green |
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8ce0416
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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self-determination
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John Green |
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5ca7f14
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There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more number..
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John Green |
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fba427a
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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John Green |
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95ebb0e
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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inspirational
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John Green |
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5a77e9f
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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
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grief
loss
revelation
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John Green |
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64dfd27
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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John Green |
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7c7ae79
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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and ma..
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life
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John Green |
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a11f54d
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people we..
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John Green |
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372a16c
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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
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beauty
popularity
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John Green |
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23d52cc
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May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice. I smiled. "Sure." "Tomorrow?" he asked. "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager. "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said. "You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center..
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John Green |
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3e73e0c
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Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard. 'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus ..
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tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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4b91d1b
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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John Green |
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c9985ea
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It is so hard to leave--until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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inspirational
inertia
nerdfighter
leaving
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John Green |
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67f58cc
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What the hell is that?" I laughed. "It's my fox hat." "Your fox hat?" "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat." "Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked. "Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."
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humor
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John Green |
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a92a29d
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I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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John Green |
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349a94e
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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suffering
joy
chocolate
pleasures
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John Green |
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ccaaf8c
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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funny
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John Green |
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a49e5ca
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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freedom
sin
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John Green |
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1436b1a
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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John Green |
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5ab017b
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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."
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John Green |
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ee7f52c
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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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8bc8ccc
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Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
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hazel-grace
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John Green |
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9fc1fd9
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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John Green |
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0580914
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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looking-for-alaska
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John Green |
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db2e715
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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music
life
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John Green |
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9d24fd0
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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John Green |
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83492f6
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What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.
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unhappiness
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John Green |
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c2a735f
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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
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tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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1224db1
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That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
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John Green |
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a59b249
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Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."
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last-words
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John Green |
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31adf10
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You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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self-expression
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John Green |
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a7e3212
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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John Green |
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89014de
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I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
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John Green |
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11092cb
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Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
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John Green |
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3e2b9f2
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Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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John Green |
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71863d0
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It's not because I want to make out with her." Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"
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John Green |
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5acc3bd
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At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
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John Green |
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68637d7
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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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joh-green
nerdfighters
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John Green |
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1402b79
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal
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reading
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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c3be789
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It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me n..
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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bd2474c
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your t..
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John Green |
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3063d6c
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Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has bec..
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John Green |
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0d6a013
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
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John Green |