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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Green

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN

Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN

Except Philosophy Survival
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
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.
JOHN GREEN

Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREEN

Constellation Imagination Stars
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN

Help Hurt Universe
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREEN

Book Business Done Reading Writing
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
JOHN GREEN

Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
JOHN GREEN

Anniversary Couple Forever Number Valentine
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREEN

Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
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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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREEN

Love Survival
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREEN

Human Powerful Tongue

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

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