August 2012
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Aug 31st
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John Green's tumblr: I Didn't Build That →
fishingboatproceeds: So I own or co-own a few businesses that have experienced varying degrees of success. I am in the educational video business, and the book-writing business, and the merchandise distribution business, and the conference running business, and the making YouTube videos with my brother…
Aug 31st
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GOLD FUCKING MEDAL.
Aug 9th
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A Historic Night
Sam Seaborn: There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry cause we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber cause we went to the moon.
Mallory O'Brien: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars?
Sam Seaborn: Yes.
Mallory O'Brien: Why?
Sam Seaborn: 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is whats next.
Aug 8th
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Aug 7th
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Aug 7th
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Aug 7th
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John Green's tumblr: In Defense of Symbolism →
fishingboatproceeds: (I thought I’d post this here as well as the Paper Towns Q&A blog. It contains no spoilers. Thanks to Tamar for making it possible for me to post this publicly.) Where did the strings metaphor inPaper Towns come from? Someone said it to me once, after a friend had attempted suicide,…
Aug 7th
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Aug 5th
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Aug 4th
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“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they...”
– The Magicians by Lev Grossman “to burn it as fuel, for light and warmth” (via hermionejg)
Aug 4th
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“The word ‘barren’ tells you everything you need to know. The word ‘spinster’...”
– Caitlin Moran on women who decide not to marry or have children (via nprfreshair)
Aug 4th
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No one: So how do you balance being a father and a husband with being an athlete?
Aug 4th
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Aug 3rd
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John Green's tumblr: For People Who've Read My... →
fishingboatproceeds: Only click these links if you’ve read the book in question! There are many spoilers. Having answered a lot of your questions over at Only If You Finished TFIOS, I’ve now collected the Q’s and A’s on my web site, where they are better organized and searchable and stuff. I’ll continue to…
Aug 2nd
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Aug 1st
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