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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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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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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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