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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.”

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John Darnielle

John Darnielle, born on March 16, 1967, is a talented musician renowned for his unique songwriting and musical style in the indie music scene. more

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Made Stills Seems Next Decision Vision Our Lives Shapes Draws Hundred Twenties Decades Cards Deck Indecision Revision

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”

Ifs Feels Moments Use Next Emotion Let Me Feel Better Maxims Wrong Things

Author:Amor Towles

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.”

Wanted Wonderful Wind Promise Approach Rest Of Your Life Manhattan Arriving Improbable Vantage Point

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

Ifs Used Father Fishes Careful Guts Old Time

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

Ifs Feels Realizing Novel Missing Fine Circumstances Blue Train Chapters Compulsion Finishing Dickens

Book:Rules of Civility

Source: Rules of Civility

“If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.”

Ifs Years

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

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