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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll
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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
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New York City
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Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
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It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
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If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.
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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.
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I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.
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Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room it can take a while to even notice it's there.
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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.
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The angel said, I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.
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Eating is sex for old people.
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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People are always waiting to be discovered.
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