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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.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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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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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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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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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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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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People are always waiting to be discovered.
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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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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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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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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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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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