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Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

John Green
Book, Reading, Winning

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

John Green
Winning, Player, Games

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

John Green
Hipster, War, Winning
John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.61, Penguin

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

John Green
Love You, Winning, People
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.235, Penguin

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

John Green
Growing Up, Winning, Twenties
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.91, A&C Black

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged

John Green
Eye, Winning, Boys
John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

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