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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

John Green

Crying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREEN

Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN

Help Hurt Universe
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREEN

College Graduation People Stupidity
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREEN

Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREEN

Enough Hard Time Money Stuff
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREEN

Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
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.
JOHN GREEN

Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN

Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREEN

Constellation Imagination Stars
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREEN

Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
JOHN GREEN

Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
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.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN

Gift People Responsiblity

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