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• Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Thinking, Sight, Want

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

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  Hate, Lying, People

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.16, Open Road Media

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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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  Beautiful, Fun, Journey

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• When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

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  When You Love Someone, Magic, Secret

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• The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

  Jonathan Carroll

  Heart, Thinking, Artist

  "The Complete Rain Taxi Interview with Jonathan Carroll". Interview with Alan DeNiro and Kelly Everding, www.raintaxi.com.

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• Everything you want in life has teeth.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Teeth, Want

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “From the Teeth of Angels”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

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  People, Get Better, Who We Are

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• May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Ocean, Circles, House

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

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  Children, Selfish, Rooms

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• If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

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  Heart, Two, Add

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• The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him.

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  Sexy, Mother, Father

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.33, Macmillan

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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.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

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  Phones, Hands, People

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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.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Cities, People, Favorite Places

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• Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dream, Mean, Your Boyfriend

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

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  Regret, Heart, Hands

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• Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Long, Stories

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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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  Time, Children, Hands

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• Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

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  Years, Two, Forgiving

  Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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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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  Law, Doe, Levels

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Thinking, Bed

  Jonathan Carroll (2014). “Bathing the Lion”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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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.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Orange, Forgiving, Fifth Grade

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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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  Blue, Jeans, People

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• Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

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  Funny, Humor, Hands

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