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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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