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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
Way
Experiences
Everybody
True
Reality

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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.
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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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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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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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 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 usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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