You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENWriting 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
More John Green Quotes
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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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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