The world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
More John Green Quotes
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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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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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.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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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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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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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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