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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to 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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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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