"There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun."
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"In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff."
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"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority."
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"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
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"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
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"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
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"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."
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"Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could."
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"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."
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"I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them."
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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
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"Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me."
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"I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies."
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"For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness."
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"It is a good life, Hazel Grace."
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"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."
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"The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is."
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"Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one."
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"A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball."
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"The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts."
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