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“there is nothing permanent or unalterable about health inequities”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But I think that way of imagining art might make individuals too important”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I can feel the pain in my jaw, but in a way that feels survivable as things only can once you’ve survived them”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I often wonder what it must have been like for my great-grandfather, having trained as a doctor, to be unable to save his own son from disease. We are powerfully enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it— the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection