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It takes an act of Congress to get a film of any size made in Los Angeles,


Jack Green

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JOHN GREEN There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
JOHN GREEN I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
JOHN GREEN I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
JOHN GREEN If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love ...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN