We all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
More John Green Quotes
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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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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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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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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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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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