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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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