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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

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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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Learn to wait invariably either things will change or your heart will.
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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.
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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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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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Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
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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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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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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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The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
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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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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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Eating is sex for old people.
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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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