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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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