John Green Quotes - Page 5

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• That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

  John Green

  War, Cancer, Ends

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

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• Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

  John Green

  Children, Kids, Blow

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• ...it occurred to me that 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

  Dream, Ambition, Done

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.305, Penguin

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• Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

  John Green

  Home, Heart, Good Friend

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• It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

  John Green

  Nice, People, Guilty

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.77, Penguin

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• She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

  John Green

  People, Dead People, Dies

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.107, Penguin

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• Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

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• How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

  John Green

  Forever, World, Left Behind

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.125, Penguin

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• But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

  John Green

  Eye, Smiley, Stills

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• Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

  John Green

  Hard Work, People, Want

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• Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Mean

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• He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

  John Green

  Happened

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.101, Penguin

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• We think that we are invincible because we are.

  John Green

  Hipster, Thinking, Invincible

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.203, Penguin

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• Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

  John Green

  Drinking, Talking, Years

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• I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

  John Green

  Hipster, Inspiration, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.203, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

  John Green

  Believe, Labyrinth, Born

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.163, Penguin

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• My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

  John Green

  Moving, Fifty, Shade

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• I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

  John Green

  Want, Responsible

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• I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

  John Green

  Real, Love Is, Cities

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• March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

  John Green

  March, Sentences

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• Funerals...are for the living.

  John Green

  Funeral

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• Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

  John Green

  Should Have, Long, Doe

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Love is tied to truth.

  John Green

  Love Is, Tied

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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• Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

  John Green

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

  John Green

  Hipster, Feelings, Knows

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.20, Penguin

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