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People are always waiting to be discovered.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Discovered
Waiting
Always
People

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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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I feel like a cliche.
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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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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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