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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

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John Darnielle

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Teenager, Stories, Short Story, Good, Kinda

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

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You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

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