"Stories hold power because they convey the illusion……" — John Hodgman
"Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending."
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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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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