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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
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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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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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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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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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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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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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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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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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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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