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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
True
Reality
Way
Experiences
Everybody

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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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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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