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It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

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John Hodgman

Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.

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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

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