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The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Bills
#Channel
#Family
#Television
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Doing
#Government
#Smile
#Time
#World
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Fantasy
#Science Fiction
#Science
#Women
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Find
#Love
#People
#Understand
#Worst
I feel like a cliche.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Cliche
#Feel
#I Feel Like
#I Feel
#Like
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Gold
#Like
#Pan
#Read
Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Back
#Coming
#Everyone
#Out
#Perfume
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Audience
#Furniture
#Head
#Question
#Why
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
- Jonathan Carroll
#About
#Damn
#Just
#Rest
#Write
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Heart
#Hope
#Me
#Regret
#Time
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Airplane
#Always
#Bad
#Coffee
#Suddenly
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Day
#Good
#Know
#Never
#Perspective
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Beginning
#Fields
#Laugh
#Love
#Walk
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
- Jonathan Carroll
#City
#Earth
#People
#Places
#Young
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Circles
#House
#Ocean
#Stand
#World
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?
- Jonathan Carroll
#Men
#Rest
#Time
#Way
#Women
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.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Beautiful Woman
#Beautiful
#Fun
#Walk
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Beautiful Woman
#Beautiful
#Men
#World
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
- Jonathan Carroll
#Adult
#Alone
#Defeat
#Eating
#McDonald
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
#Children
#Hands
#People
#Time
#Young
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