I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
JOHN GREENThe urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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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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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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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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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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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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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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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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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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