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c5fa706
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It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works.
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John Green |
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d1974d6
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All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
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John Green |
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f89ae4f
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Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.
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storytelling
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John Green |
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aa68ac4
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So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.
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John Green |
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c3f2151
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Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really--just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body.
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pain
john-green
turtles-all-the-way-down
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John Green |
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a371e2d
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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
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John Green |
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8cc3794
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When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And that could have happened to me, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her.
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John Green |
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d66a2bf
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Stupid human voices always ruining everything.
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John Green |
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649e1fb
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He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
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John Green |
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eef2c98
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There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people."
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nerds
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John Green |
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fe6f883
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As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to ..
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life
cigarettes
smart
smoking
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John Green |
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1228aed
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.
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John Green |
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a547cac
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No headboards were broken.
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humor
twilight
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John Green |
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9221e44
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Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus...
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John Green |
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d3cf3f4
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What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in."
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family
sadness
hazel
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John Green |
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81f7860
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Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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John Green |
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41d282c
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A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible mome..
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tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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2e2c93a
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She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.
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John Green |
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3e1120a
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.
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John Green |
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cd7f5e1
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He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...
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humor
hazel-grace
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John Green |
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b6d8e40
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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
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John Green |
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e1d3bc9
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Cuando los adultos dicen: "Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles", con esa sonrisa manosa y estupida en sus rostros, no saben cuan en lo correcto estan. Necesitamos no perder nunca la esperanza, porque nunca nos podemos romper de manera irreparable. Pensamos que somos invencibles porque los somos. No podemos nacer y no podemos morir. Como toda la energia, solo podemos cambiar formas, tamanos y manifestaciones. Ellos olvidan eso al en..
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frases
john-green
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John Green |
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67d5002
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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between frien..
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friendship
love
unrequited
risk-taking
forever
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John Green |
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72bcaa4
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I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.
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self-description
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John Green |
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4d5b4ba
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Comment dis-tu 'Oh my God, I don't know nearly enough French to pass French II'
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John Green |
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4dcc968
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God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
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John Green |
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3570ca2
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Ignorance is bliss
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John Green |
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e34006f
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Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.
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John Green |
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976577a
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I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor."
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dying
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John Green |
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293f592
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I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends u..
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the-fault-in-our-stars
ya
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John Green |
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314176f
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Oh, my god," Augustus said. "I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes." "I was thirteen," I said again, although of course I was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately."
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John Green |
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364c4cf
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But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever."
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ceci-n-est-pas-une-pipe
pipe
this-is-not-a-pipe
representation
drawing
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John Green |
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8aed488
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Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hea..
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John Green |
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505eec9
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Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.
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John Green |
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cdfcac3
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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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John Green |
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2b8009d
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.
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John Green |
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192b546
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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death-and-dying
romantic
death
cowpox
smallpox
cancer
augustus-waters
waters
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
grace
beautiful
hazel
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John Green |
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ac7a28b
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And then, in boating supplies, Margo located an air horn. She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, "No," and she said, "No what?" And I said, "No don't blow the air horn," except when I got to the in , she squeezed on it and it let out an excruciatingly loud honk that felt in my head like the auditory equivalent of an aneurysm, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. What was that?" And I said, "Stop ..
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humor
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John Green |
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253ec97
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I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?
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John Green |
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90560ac
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So here's how it went in God's heart: The six or seven or ten of us walked/wheeled in, grazed at a decrepit selection of cookies and lemonade, sat down in the Circle of Trust, and listened to Patrick recount for the thousandth time his depressingly miserable life story-how he had cancer in his balls and they thought he was going to die but he didn't die and now here he is, a full-grown adult in a church basement in the 137th nicest city in ..
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John Green |
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82efeae
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Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale," I said."
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John Green |
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c125cf9
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People always get used to beauty, though. I haven't gotten used to you just yet
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beauty
agustus-waters
gus
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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f15d582
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I had no doubt that Tiny he got depressed, but that was probably because he had nothing to compare it to. Still, what could I say? that I didn't just depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? That if he got blue, I got black? That I hated those pills so much because I knew how much I relied on them to live? No, I couldn't say any of this because when it all comes ..
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John Green |
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85cd7bf
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor..
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |