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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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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 don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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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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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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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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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