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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 think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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 don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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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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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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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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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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