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John Green Quotes - Page 35

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I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

Falling In Love, Ends, Landing

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

Writing, Work Out, Doe

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.

Real, Writing, Fighting

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Writing, Faces, Obsolescence

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

Swings, Catholic, Voters

The right story needs the right telling.

Writing, Needs, Stories

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.

Book, Writing, People

"John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". The Guardian interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

Stars, Night, Produce

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Children, Thinking, Genius

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.

Death, Remember, Humans

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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.

Education, Passion, Important

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.

Education, Jobs, Party

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

Gratitude, Thinking, Attention

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

Home

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

Two, People, House

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.

Sex, Thinking, People

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.

Sex, Two, Interesting

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Study broadly and without fear.

Study

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

Cancer, Giving, Chance

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.229, Penguin

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Parent, Matter, Patient

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

Heaven, Dumb, Intellectual

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.752, Penguin

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

Hurt, Real, Important

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

Ideas, Strange, Defined

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

Girl, Nerd, World

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