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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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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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John Kellogg Hodgman
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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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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
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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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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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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 would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
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I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
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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 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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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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By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
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The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?
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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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From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.
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