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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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