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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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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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Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
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Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
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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 am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination what a hassle that would be!
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I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
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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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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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Only the nerds will save the earth.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
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Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.
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I am not an Internet superstar.
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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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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
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