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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

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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Writing
Trying
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Interests
Dangerous
Audience

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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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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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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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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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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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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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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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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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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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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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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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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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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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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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People are always waiting to be discovered.
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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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I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
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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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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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