It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know … - John Darnielle

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Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

John Darnielle

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

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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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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

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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.

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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.

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You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.

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Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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