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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.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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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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I feel like a cliche.
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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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I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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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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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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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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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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