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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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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
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I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.
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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 would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
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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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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
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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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John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
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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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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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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 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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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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People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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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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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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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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