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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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 think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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