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Book Quotes by John Green
- "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.…
- One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're…
- Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or…
- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us…
- What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or…
- I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me…
- Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
- When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
- Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does…
- We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down…
- Books belong to their readers.
- In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of…
- You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
- You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore -…
- Books are like tweets, except longer.
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
- I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible…
- I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot…
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