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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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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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What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road.
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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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A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
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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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You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.
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Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.
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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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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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You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
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I am not an Internet superstar.
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I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
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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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People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna 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.
John Hodgman
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.
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I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.
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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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