John Hodgman Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in…
• Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I…
• Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
• Specificity is the soul of narrative.
• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's…
• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that…
• There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
• As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the…
• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in…
• I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
• I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
• 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…
• The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family…
• My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives…
• I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please…
• My fame is due to broadcast television.
• 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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