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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

John Green

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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Alone Introvert Profession Writing
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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Awful Feeling Person Realize Shock Strange World
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Live Music People
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Book Girl Look Love Room
You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love Missing People
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Believe Destruction Ourselves
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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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
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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Book Reading
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Constellation Imagination Stars
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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Enough Hard Time Money Stuff
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Infinite One Liner
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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Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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Hard Time Inspirational Worry
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Gift People Responsiblity
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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Help Hurt Universe
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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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

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