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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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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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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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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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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out 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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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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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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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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