Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us. John Green fighting real writing Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. John Green obsolescence faces writing My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves. John Green shade fifty moving The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters. John Green swings voters catholic We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance. John Green crazy broken reality The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy. John Green crazy broken world The right story needs the right telling. John Green stories writing needs I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance. John Green writing book people When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals John Green warm civilization people The darkest nights produce the brightest stars. John Green produce stars night That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. John Green genius children thinking There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. John Green humans remember death It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally. John Green passion important education When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context. John Green party education jobs I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet. John Green gratitude attention thinking Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere. John Green home The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. John Green house two people In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable. John Green sex people thinking Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question. John Green two sex interesting In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you. John Green motivational inspirational funny
