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

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About John Green

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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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

—Gaston Bachelard

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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

—Edward Hopper

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