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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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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Recognize
Parts
Lost
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Find
Take
Always

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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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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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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room it can take a while to even notice it's there.
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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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Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.
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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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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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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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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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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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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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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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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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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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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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