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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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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.
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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
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