“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual… — John Green Copy Share Image
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green Copy Share Image
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust--your senses or your truth? The Greeks didn't even have a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
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