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John Green (1977 - )

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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.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.: John Green, VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13
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In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Childrens TV, 04-10-12
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In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Dumping My 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, 09-24-13
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Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Dumping My 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, 09-24-13
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It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, My Name Is John Green. And I am a Nerd., 10-30-07
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Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Why Does Congress Suck?, 01-01-13
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