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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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