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John Green Quotes - Page 14

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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Stars, Love You, Happy Valentines Day

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Real, Distance, Glasses

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.39, Penguin

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

Death, Real, Thinking

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

Reading, Writing, Ideas

What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Real, Book, Writing

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

Fun, Sadness, Gone

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.

Crazy, Reality, Broken

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

World, Rats, Awful

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.6, A&C Black

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Reading, Writing, Talking

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

Girl, Smart, Boys

YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers" / "Advice on Dumb Boyfriends, Going to College, and More", www.youtube.com. May 10, 2010.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

Interesting, Different, Knows

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin

Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life.

Real, College, Engineering

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

Book, Secret, Algorithms

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Book, Ladders, Companion

Waffles are just awesome bread.

Waffles, Bread

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

Writing, Order, People

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

Voice, Glory, Neediness

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.100, Penguin

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Knowing, Alaska, Done

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

People, Sometimes, Easy

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.165, Penguin

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

Real, Glasses, Eight

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.68, Penguin

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Life, Depression, Real

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

Real, House, Looks

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.139, Penguin

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

Book, Character, Simple

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

Hate, Feelings, Together

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

Laughing, Explanation, Stills

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.147, Penguin

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