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
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
More John Green Quotes
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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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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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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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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 you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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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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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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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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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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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 just did an awesome job of not dying.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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