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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
Comedian
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Television Actor
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
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I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.
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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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To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
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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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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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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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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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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
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Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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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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By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.
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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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Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.
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The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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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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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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