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Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since the 1970s.

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

Bed, Good, Men, Thinking, Women

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Life, Love, Peace, Real, Things, Two

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.

Good, Month, Perspective, Reality, Years

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.

Beautiful, Down, Fun, Journey, Street

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.

Heart, Two, Add, Bad, Everything

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.

Beliefs, Black, Fall, Fast, Gone, Hole

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

Chaotic, Control, Love, Love Is, Perspective, Real

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

Get Better, Know, Older, People, Who We Are

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.

Days, Greatest, Like, Thinking, Today, Writing

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

Faces, Friendly, Giving, Looking, Steals

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

Airplane, Cabin, Coffee, Served, Smell, Whenever

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

People, Real, Secrets, Told, Two

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

Heard, Point, Retrospect, Too Late

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.

Doe, Law, Level, Levels, Social

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Writing, Damn, Bites, Rest, Write

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Fifth Grade, Forgiving, List, Nothing, Orange, Stole

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

Back, Coming, Funny, Hand, Hands, Humor

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.

Beginning, Book, Discovery, Elimination

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Besides, Blind, Forget, Presence, Save, Weapons

I feel like a cliche.

Cliche, Feels, Like

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