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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Bites
Damn
Rest
Write
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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
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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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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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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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My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
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Eating is sex for old people.
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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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Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy
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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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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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I feel like a cliche.
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
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Everything you want in life has teeth.
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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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Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room it can take a while to even notice it's there.
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The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.
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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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Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.
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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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