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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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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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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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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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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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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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