John Green (author) quotes - page 6

The marks humans leave are too often scars. (John Green (author))
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? View quote
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. View quote
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If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. View quote
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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. View quote
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. View quote
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I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. But I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with. View quote
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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. View quote
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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both. View quote
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other. View quote
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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating. (John Green (author))
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. View quote
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You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. View quote
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It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions. View quote
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If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go? View quote
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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. View quote
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It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory. View quote
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die. View quote
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The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. View quote
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I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with. View quote
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Hank: "If you just say enough things, some of them will end up on those quote websites." // John: "Which, of course, is the point of being a person." (John Green (author))