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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.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Children
Time
Unfaithful
People
Along
Probably
Hands
Young
Wells
Well

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Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.
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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
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