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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
Hard
Children
Things
Delighted
Life
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Delight
Tired
Disease
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of 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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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 seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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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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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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