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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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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The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

—Henry Drummond

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

—Edith Sitwell

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

—Honoré de Balzac

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

—John Burroughs

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