John Darnielle Quotes

• Good things never last, bad things never die.

  John Darnielle

  Lasts, Good Things, Dies

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• One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

  John Darnielle

  Way, Sin, Get Real

  "John Darnielle Tells the Story Behind the Mountain Goats' Biblical New LP". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 8, 2009.

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• There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

  John Darnielle

  Two, Stories, Dies

  John Darnielle (2014). “Wolf in White Van: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Heart, Kids, Years

  "God bless youthful bastard bravery". Interview with Ben Kopel, logger.believermag.com. October 23, 2013.

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• When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

  John Darnielle

  Dream, Forgiving, Persons

  "The Believer" Interview, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Children, Tired, Life Is Hard

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Extra Help, Wind

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Puedes leer muy bien tus sueños si piensas que todos los personajes que aparecen en ellos son realmente tú.

  John Darnielle

  Dream, Character, Thinking

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

  John Darnielle

  Able, Painful, Cherish

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

  John Darnielle

  Stupid, Alive, Feels

  "Song: "Amy aka Spent Gladiator I" ("Transcendental Youth")". 2012.

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• People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

  John Darnielle

  Nursing, Expression, People

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.

  John Darnielle

  Arte, Dolor, Libro

  "Lyrical Genius John Darnielle Wrote a Scary New Novel". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2017.

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• Me encuentro en un momento de mi vida en el que cuanto más me parezca a una cueva lo que me rodea, más feliz seré.

  John Darnielle

  Caves, Surroundings, I Can

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Giving, World, Shelter

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• I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

  John Darnielle

  Best Work, Angry, Seems

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Feelings, My Friends, Jaded

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

  John Darnielle

  Winter, Ice, Pieces

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• Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.

  John Darnielle

  Comfort, Earth, Way

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

  John Darnielle

  Unhappy, Impossible, Emotion

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

  John Darnielle

  Reality, Way

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Shopping, Missing

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• [Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!

  John Darnielle

  Character, Writing, Horror Stories

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• I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

  John Darnielle

  Real, People, Novel

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• [Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

  John Darnielle

  Writing, Lasts, Stories

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• It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

  John Darnielle

  Evil, Stay Positive, World

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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