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'Patience, grasshopper,' I c...

'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. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.' I rolled my eyes. 'I'm serious,' he said.'You don't even know me,' I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. 'How about I call you when I finish this?''But you don't even have my phone number,' he said.'I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book.'He broke out into that goofy smile. 'And you say we do

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Gus: 'It tastes like...' Me:...

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 delicately...?' Me: 'It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table.' Gus: 'Nicely phrased.' Gus's father: 'Our children are weird.' My dad: 'Nicely phrased.'

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Frankly, I kind of want you to...

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

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'And how are you feeling?' a...

'And how are you feeling?' asked Patrick.'Oh, I'm grand.' Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. 'I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.'

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You don't want romantic advice...

You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist.

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But pizza was originally Itali...

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

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Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters...

Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.

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According to the conventions o...

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

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I love being in cities with lo...

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

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One of the reasons that metaph...

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 in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: 'Do you like anyone right now?' - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, 'do you like me right now.'

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'Nothing ever happens like yo...

'Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will,' she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. 'Yeah, that's true,' I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, 'But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.'

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...I will continue to undersco...

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

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Okay, maybe I'm not such a shi...

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

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Truth defies simplicity....

Truth defies simplicity.

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Books are seldom useful unless...

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

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In general-like not just in fi...

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 an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.

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It is a good life, Hazel Grace...

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

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That is, to me at least, one o...

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 to choose what matters to us.

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You are helpful, and you are l...

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

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On the morning in question, sh...

On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....