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Jonathan Carroll

"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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"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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"The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution."

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"Everything started as nothing."

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"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."

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"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."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever."
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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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"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."
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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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"May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world."
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