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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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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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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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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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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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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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