October 2010
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John Green and Evolution: A Correspondence
Dear Evolution,
I have always believed in you, and I have always defended you. Now make me a puppy-sized elephant!
Your friend, John
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Dear human,
Thank you for your letter. We made you a puppy-sized elephant, but then you killed it. Fancy that.
You’re welcome for your thumbs, Evolution
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Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about...
– John Green
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According to my mom, the meanest thing Hank ever did to me was try to kill me...
– John Green
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I like my job, of course, or at least I like it a lot more than most of the...
– John Green
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People just can’t stand not knowing something, she says. Especially men can’t...
– Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
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The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What’s a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
I understand why some people would be reluctant to read about two Will Graysons and “the world’s largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.” It is a story that bravely delves into the painful...
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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That’s what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent...
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green and David Levithan
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Nerdfighter Letters →
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful,...
– Madeleine L’Engle
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[Don’t ever tell anybody anything.] If you do, you start missing everybody.
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger [redux]
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The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in...
– The BFG, Roald Dahl
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THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. We are here to help you....
– Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the...
– George Orwell
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And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...
– East of Eden, John Steinbeck
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There was no place to go but everywhere.
– On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do...
– Kafka
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My mind possessed the wisdoms of the ages, and there were no words adequate to...
– Go ask Alice
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much...
– Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut