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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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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.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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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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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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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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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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