In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
John GreenIsn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
John GreenThe pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
John GreenTags: anticipation
Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
John GreenTags: paper towns paper-towns margo quentin
I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.
John GreenTags: humor
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
John GreenTags: vlog
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John GreenThe funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
John GreenThe beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
John GreenHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
John GreenTags: words reading books literature
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