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The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. China has unbridled capitalism.


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JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellentl...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN I love you present tense.
JOHN GREEN She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.
JOHN GREEN It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them...
JOHN GREEN There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
JOHN GREEN