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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Humor
Coming
Hand
Funny
Everyone
Smelling
Hands
Perfume
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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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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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