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About John Green
John Green (born 24 August 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction, who has appeared on the New York Times best sellers list several times. He also publishes a video blog with his brother Hank Green as "vlogbrothers". A massive community has popped up around the videos that the brothers call 'Nerdfighteria.' John lives with his wife and two kids in Indianapolis.
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“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”
“People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.”
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”
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John Green on Love 3 quotes
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“Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.”
John Green on Slavery 3 quotes
“A Christian! going, gone! Who bids for God's own image?—for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won?”
John Green on Beauty 2 quotes
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View all 2 quotes on Life →John Green on Peace 2 quotes
“As on the Sea of Galilee, The Christ is whispering "Peace."”
John Green on Oblivion 2 quotes
“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”
John Green on Pumpkins 2 quotes
“And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to behold, Through orange leaves shining the broad spheres of gold.”
John Green on Trees 2 quotes
“What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.”
John Green on Agriculture 2 quotes
“But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!”
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John Green on Women 2 quotes
“Sweet promptings unto kindest deeds Were in her very look; We read her face, as one who reads A true and holy book.”
John Green on Charles George Gordon 2 quotes
“For years I have followed General Gordon's course with constantly increasing interest, wonder, and admiration, and I have felt his death as a great personal bereavement. A Providential man, his mission in an unbelieving and selfish age revealed the mighty power of faith in God, self-abnegation, and the enthusiasm of humanity. For centuries no grander figure has crossed the disk of our planet. Unique, unapproachable in his marvelous individuality, he belongs to no sect or party, and defies classification or comparison. I should be sorry to see his name used for party purposes, for neither Conservative nor Radical has any special claim upon him... We Americans, in common with all English-speaking people, the world over, lament his death, and share his glorious memory.”
John Green on Women in the United States
John Green on Dutch people
“German Bismarck said that the solution of the Irish question lay in having the Irish to swap countries with the Dutch. He added that the Dutch would make Ireland the most beautiful island in the world while the Irish would neglect to mend the dykes left to them by the Dutch and therefore would be drowned.”
John Green on Irish people
“German Bismarck said that the solution of the Irish question lay in having the Irish to swap countries with the Dutch. He added that the Dutch would make Ireland the most beautiful island in the world while the Irish would neglect to mend the dykes left to them by the Dutch and therefore would be drowned.”
John Green on Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Once in the world's history we were to have a Yankee prophet, and we have had him in Joe Smith. For good or for evil, he has left his track on the great pathway of life—or, to use the words of Horne, "knocked out for himself a window in the wall of the nineteenth century," whence his rude, bold, good-humored face will peer out upon the generations to come.”
John Green on Robert Burns
“Though I have never been able to trace my ancestry to the Land o' Cakes, I have—and I know it is saying a great deal—a Scotchman's love for the poet whose fame deepens and broadens with years. The world has never known a truer singer. We may criticise his rustic verse and compare his brief and simple lyrics with the works of men of longer scrolls and loftier lyres; but after rendering to Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning the homage which the intellect owes to genius, we turn to Burns, if not with awe and reverence, [yet] with a feeling of personal interest and affection. We admire others; we love him. As the day of his birth comes round, I take down his well-worn volume in grateful commemoration, and feel that I am communing with one whom living I could have loved as much for his true manhood and native nobility of soul as for those wonderful songs of his which shall sing themselves forever.”
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Clint Smith on John Green
“(fills me with hope:) The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. I love the way John Green’s mind works. This book of essays traverses so many parts of our world—both elusive and quotidian—and demonstrates, ultimately, how remarkable it is to be human.”
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About John Green
John Green (born 24 August 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction, who has appeared on the New York Times best sellers list several times. He also publishes a video blog with his brother Hank Green as "vlogbrothers". A massive community has popped up around the videos that the brothers call 'Nerdfighteria.' John lives with his wife and two kids in Indianapolis.