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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

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
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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
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One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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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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Eating is sex for old people.
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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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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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Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.
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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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Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
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I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
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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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Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
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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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You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
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