I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
JOHN GREENStanding in line is a form of oppression.
More John Green Quotes
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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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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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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