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The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
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We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus...
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Indiana,' he said. 'They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
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I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
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Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.
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I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.
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It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
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The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
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And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
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All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.
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Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.
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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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It's not fair, I said. It's just so goddamned unfair. The world, he said, is not a wishgranting factory,
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.
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What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.
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We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
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So how's it going? Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU? Yeah, I said. Sucks, he said. I'm a lot better now, I said. I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus. I know. I'm pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.
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It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
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I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
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And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
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But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)
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Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
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There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Georges Bataille
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(age 46)
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