What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
More John Green Quotes
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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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 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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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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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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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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