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A novel is a performance you have to plan.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Plans
Novel
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Performances

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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 easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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