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Doe Quotes by John Green
- Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but…
- Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this…
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest…
- Does my eye look okay to you?
- 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…
- That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
- God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.
- Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful…
- That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is…
- Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes…
- Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
- And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer…
- Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask…
- The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it…
- You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
- Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of…
- Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
- Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was…
- But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but…
- You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier…
- Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
- The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
- The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
- Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi