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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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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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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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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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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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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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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.
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