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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
Author
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
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I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
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It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.
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I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.
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I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
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I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
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Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.
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When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
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I am not an Internet superstar.
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Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
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It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.
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Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
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Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
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The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.
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