Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
More John Green Quotes
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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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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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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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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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