John Hodgman Quotes
There had been hoboes in the United States since there had been trains and liquor, which is to say, always.
John Hodgman
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In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.
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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
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The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.
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I am not an Internet superstar.
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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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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.
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Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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