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.
JOHN GREEN
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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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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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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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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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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