This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help … - John Darnielle

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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

John Darnielle

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.

Appear, Claim, Cry, Fate, Life, People

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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.

Experimental, Novel, Onto, People, Real, Stories

People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?

Destroy, Friends, Know, Knows, People

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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

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In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

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