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
JOHN GREENYour responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
More John Green Quotes
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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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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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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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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 tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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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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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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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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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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