He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENEvery year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
More John Green Quotes
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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