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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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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 get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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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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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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