John Green - Quodid

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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

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Grief does not change you, it reveals you.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

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.

You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.

The less serious your job, the more seriously you must take it.

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