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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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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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