American - Author | January 26, 1949 -
Old people are often impatient, but for what?
Jonathan Carroll
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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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People are always waiting to be discovered.
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Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
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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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The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
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There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
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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.
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When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
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Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
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