Jonathan Carroll
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"Jonathan Samuel Carroll" is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, Slipstream (genre)/slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria from the 1970s.

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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 sensless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Do you know the German phrase, 'You can steal horses with him'? It means a person you can both make love with all night, passionately, then wake up the next morning and be completely silly.

The guy looked through the hole and he assumed it was somebody coming to work. He opened the back door and as soon as the back door opened, that's when the whole incident took place.

Pipeline is unlike any wave in the world, unique in every way. So I think it's great that we were given this opportunity. It's like our chance to shine.

With gas prices hitting record levels, consumers need to secure their fall and winter 2006 vacation now ... We are expecting an increase in fuel surcharges on international flights as well as domestic and Caribbean for the upcoming season. This will mark the third fuel surcharge that consumers will be subjected to in 2005 alone.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

There are long quiet periods in life that are very much like waiting for a bus on a nice day. You don't mind being there so much because the weather is sunny and nice, and you're in no hurry. But after a while you start looking at your watch because there are more interesting things you could be doing, and it really is time the bus came.

But it didn't bother me. I was just trying to play my game. There wasn't long to go.

He went to the hospital; he got a few stitches, a few bruises. He's shaken up.

One guy was ordered to stay in there and not come out. Being intelligent, he did exactly what they told him to.

For those consumers planning to travel, surcharges could total an additional $75 per person on average. Typically, when one major airline implements a fuel surcharge, other airlines promptly adjust their fares as a result. ... We want to keep consumers up to date and give them the tools to make the informed choices.