What did John Green mean by: The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me. - John Green Author Copy
+ No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Green, Anger, Sad, 0 - John Green Author
+ He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn’t give it the power to kill him. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Green, Killing, Mouths, 0 - John Green Author
+ The marks humans leave are too often scars. Feraz Zeid, November 6, 2023December 26, 2023, John Green, Green, Pain, 0 - John Green Author
+ You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. Feraz Zeid, April 11, 2023January 10, 2024, John Green, Memory, Perception, Reality, 0 - John Green Author
+ Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Green, Hipster, Moments, 0 - John Green Author
+ Don’t worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, John Green, Useless, Worried, Worry, 0 - John Green Author
+ As lives go, I’ll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Green, Bipolar, Desperate, 0 - John Green Author
+ A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. Feraz Zeid, June 11, 2023December 12, 2023, John Green, Book, Conversation, 0 - John Green Author
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
