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JOHN GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
More John Green Quotes
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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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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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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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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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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