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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.

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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Earth
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Every
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Good
Attune
Frequency
Comfort

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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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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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 process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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 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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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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