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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
Feels
Dont
Writing
Connect
Never
Adults
Would
Everybody
Interesting
Write
Stuff
Feel
Adulthood

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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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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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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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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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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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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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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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