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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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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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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 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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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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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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