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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Never
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Stuff
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Adulthood
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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in 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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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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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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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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