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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Jonathan Carroll
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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
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Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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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 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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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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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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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy
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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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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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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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I feel like a cliche.
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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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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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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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Eating is sex for old people.
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People are always waiting to be discovered.
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Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
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You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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