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John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his younger brother Hank Green.

Quotes from John Green

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.

—John Green in Looking for Alaska

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

politics USA wealth houses

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

—John Green in Paper Towns

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

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

You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.

—John Green in Turtles All the Way Down

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If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

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That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.

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