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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
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Disaster
Remains
Possibility
Wrong
Everything
Way
Controllable
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Horrific

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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 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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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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