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Everything you want in life has teeth.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Teeth
Everything
Life

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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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