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paper towns

A paper town is a town full of fake lying cheaters who are just cutouts of what they wish to be,people go to paper towns and meet paper people and they will never come back.The fake paper people hurt and burn the real ones, But i guess it goes to show paper people are meant to be together.
paper towns by paper towns October 13, 2015

Paper towns. 

A town marked on a map that doesn't actually exist and is used to help map making companies avoid being plagarized.
Paper towns. by youfoundher February 6, 2015

Paper Towns. 

In the author’s note, John writes about how paper towns were not real places, but names of places on maps, “…created to protect against copyright infringement,” (p. 307). It’s the thought of creating something that other people want to make real, which resembles Margo so well. As she said, “It’s great being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Algoe is a place where paper creation became real… I thought the paper cutout of a girl could become real here also,” (p. 294). Maybe life is not about belonging to anything or anyone. Maybe it’s not about being anything at all. Maybe it’s just about being one’s own Margo.
…All the houses that were built to fall apart… All the things paper-thin and paper frail



From a distance… You can’t see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it


“You will go to the Paper Towns.
And you will never come back.”


Paper Towns. by Paper.Girl.</3 March 7, 2009

Paper Town 

A town that is added to a map but doesn't exist to keep other mapmakers from crossing copyright laws.
person reading map: I've been driving around for hours and i can't find the town of Algoe
accompanying person: it must just be a paper town
Paper Town by piecesofyellow February 22, 2009

Paper town 

A town that is shallow,fragile, and fake.
Look at all those cul-de-sacs, the streets that turn in on themselves all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people in their paper houses burning the furniture to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking the beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. It's just a paper town.

Paper Town 

A town where everything is lacking in depth. A superficial town full of 2 dimensional beings..
"this paper town has no depth"
Paper Town by Omantyke April 29, 2010
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