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Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
John Hodgman
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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.
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You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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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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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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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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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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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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I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
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When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
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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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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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Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
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