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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
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margo-roth-spiegelman
john-green
paper-towns
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No puedo hablar sobre nuestra historia de amor, asi que hablare sobre matematicas. No soy una matematica, pero se esto: hay infinitos numeros entre el 0 y el 1. Hay .1 y .12 y .112 y una infinita coleccion de otros. Por supuesto, hay una coleccion mas grande de numeros entre 0 y 2 o entre 0 y un millon. Algunos infinitos son mas grandes que otros. Un escritor que nos gustaba nos enseno eso. Hay dias, muchos de ellos, cuando me resiento por ..
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Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent." ... "Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this." ... "I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this." ... "Ca..
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We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at that time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
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John Green |
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Every loss is unprecedented.
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John Green |
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31c7e75
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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
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John Green |
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There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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people
overwhelming
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John Green |
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You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? "Follow your parents' advice; they know what's good for you." And you know how no one ever listens to this advice, because even if it's true it's so annoying and condescending that it just make you want to go, like, develop a meth addiction and have unprotected sex with eighty seven thousand anonymous partners?"
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John Green |
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Shame about how we're gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It's the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is "sodomy''." --
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John Green |
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Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?
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mothers
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John Green |
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I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis."
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John Green |
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d30cf7e
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And I kept thinking about how sky is a singular noun, as if it's one thing. But the sky isn't one thing. The sky is everything. And last night, it was enough.
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sky
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John Green |
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bc66b60
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I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.
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remission
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John Green |
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a6a9d3d
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I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis."
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John Green |
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Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses."
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ontological
platypus
peter-van-houten
creatures
hazel
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John Green |
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64aef3b
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If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.
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John Green |
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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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sarcasm
police
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Augustus: "You probably need some rest." Me: "I'm okay." Augustus: "Okay." (Pause.) "What are you thinking about?" Me: "You." Augustus: "What about me?" Me: "'I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.'" Augustus: "God, you are sexy."
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John Green |
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They don't kill you unless you light them," he said as Mom arrived at the curb. "And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you dont' give it the power to do its killing."
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John Green |
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Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get t..
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John Green |
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121
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John Green |
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ce9bbd4
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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill." - Takumi"
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strawberry-hill
takumi
looking-for-alaska
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John Green |
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bf8b6c2
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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with..
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life
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John Green |
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We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.
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looking-for-alaska
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John Green |
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People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?
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John Green |
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But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fantasized about living in the clouds, and everyone raised their hand. Then Mr. Martinez told us that up in the clouds the wind blew one hundred and fifty miles an hour and the temperature was thirty below zero and there was no oxygen and we'd all die within seconds." "Sounds like a nice guy." "He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.let me tell you. You..
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John Green |
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I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, ye..
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John Green |
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The pathetic thing I wanted to say to him on the phone - but didn't - was this: When you're a little kid, you have something. Maybe it's a blanket or a stuffed animal or whatever. For me, it was this stuffed prairie dog that I got one Christmas when I was like three. I don't even know where they found a stuffed prairie dog, but whatever, it sat up on its hind legs and I called him Marvin, and I dragged Marvin around by his prairie dog ears ..
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Still perfect," he said. "Read to me." "This isn't really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your sleeping mother. It has, like, sodomy and angel dust in it," I said. "You just named two of my favorite pastimes," he said. "Okay, read me something else then?" "Um," I said. "I don't have anything else?" "That's too bad. I am so in the mood for poetry. Do you have anything memorized?" "'Let us go then, you and I,'" I started ner..
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John Green |
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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
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people
love
skills
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John Green |
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I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, ye..
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I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.
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John Green |
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
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John Green |
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That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."
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John Green |
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You can't just make me different and then leave
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loss
death
love
driving
drunk
lost
dying
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John Green |
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These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.'
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poetry
humor
nerdfighters
poet
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John Green |
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c117e63
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Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!
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drunk
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John Green |
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c47ed68
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Creo que somos mas grandes que la suma de nuestras partes.
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frases
john-green
quotes
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John Green |
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It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.
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pet-dragon
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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9b98b3c
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Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems."
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John Green |
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ef56221
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I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
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John Green |
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I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation"."
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John Green |
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It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
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John Green |