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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Tired
Disease
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Children
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Life
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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