"It’s been a tough couple of years for……" — John Hodgman
"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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John Hodgman
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65 Quotes by John Hodgman
John Hodgman has 65 quotes on this site.
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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…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it…
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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose…
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Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make…
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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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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance…
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so…
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or…
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where…
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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