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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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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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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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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