We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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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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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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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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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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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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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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.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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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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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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