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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Mind
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I feel like a cliche.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.
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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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Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.
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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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