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John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Gift of a Book

I love books that contain all of these big human experiences because in real life, that stuff is always living alongside everything else. I think that's part of the gift of a great book is it gives people a little bit of extra permission to feel that full spectrum of human emotions. The reader has to open themselves to the book and the writer does as well. It requires a mutual generosity. And maybe that is what is really deeply weird and particular for me anyway about books.

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