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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Bloomington
Indiana
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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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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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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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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 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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