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I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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Orange
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Fifth
Nothing
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Crayon
Forgive
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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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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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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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