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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Seeing
Others
Give
Shelter
Giving
Imagined
Much
Worlds
World
Anywhere
Avoid
Outside

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