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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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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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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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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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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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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 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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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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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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