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

  Jonathan Carroll

  Phones, Hands, People

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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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  Men, Cake, Should Have

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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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• 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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• 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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  Cities, People, Favorite Places

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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?

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  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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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Smell

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

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

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  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.

  Jonathan Carroll

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

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  Men, Thinking, Bed

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

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

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  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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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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  Orange, Forgiving, Fifth Grade

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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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• 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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• 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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• Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

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  Writing, Damn, Bites

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

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  Brother, Memories, Past

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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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  Reality, Years, Perspective

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• The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

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  Smile, Children, Glasses

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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.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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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

  Writing, Thinking, Today

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• Old people are often impatient, but for what?

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  People, Impatient, Old People

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