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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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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
Author
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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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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It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.
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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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I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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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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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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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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My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.
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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 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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You know the old saying: History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
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