When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
Tags: dreams
I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.
Good things never last, bad things never die.
John DarnielleWhen you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you / The best ever death metal band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you / Hail Satan!
John DarniellePeople say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?
John DarnielleGod is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details.
John DarnielleI don't even want to be rich I just want to be alone.
John DarnielleI wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are.
John DarniellePeople always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.
John DarnielleBooks 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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