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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

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
Memory
Memories
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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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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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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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Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
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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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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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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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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
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The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.
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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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I feel like a cliche.
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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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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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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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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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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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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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Eating is sex for old people.
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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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