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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
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Able
Possession
Take
Painful
Hard
Gift
Even
Bigger
Things
Within
Whatever
Learn
Anything
Cherish

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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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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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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 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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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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