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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
John Hodgman
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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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John Kellogg Hodgman
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Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
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I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
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Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me.
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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
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Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.
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I actually own a copy of my own book that's how dedicated I am as an author.
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A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman) while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
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I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.
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I am not an Internet superstar.
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
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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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Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
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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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I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
John Hodgman
I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.
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