Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREENWe’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
More John Green Quotes
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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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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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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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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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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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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