John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
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It does have a kind of byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on.
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Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
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So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
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All else being equal, past officeholders ought to have an advantage, but all things are rarely equal.
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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.