Quotes by Jim Carroll

About Jim Carroll:

James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.
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Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You ...

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Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.

Jim Carroll

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Jim Carroll

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

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On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and h...

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all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

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I wind up stretched across the couch still nodding with Sherlock Holmes examining our crushed veins

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Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

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You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we c...

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Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

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Author Bio

  • NameJim Carroll
  • DescriptionAmerican author, poet, and punk musician
  • BornAugust 1, 1949
  • DiedSeptember 11, 2009
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Poet; Novelist; Writer