Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
More John Green Quotes
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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We just did an awesome job of not 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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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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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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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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