A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
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"I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn’t fucking married."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
"I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
"One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
"My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
"The author jokes that the culture at his first job at Entertainment Weekly chased away the worthwhile aspects of his Brown education, but in so doing he makes a subtle point about the profound impact of the culture with which we surround ourselves and how easily we can be defined and constrained by our jobs."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
"Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system."
A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World