We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENLife works best when we think of people as people.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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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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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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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