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Junk is just another nine to five gig in the end, only the hours are a bit more inclined towards shadows.

Jim Carroll

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 had no sense of loyalty.

Jim Carroll

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.

Jim Carroll

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

Jim Carroll

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

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Born: August 1, 1949

Died: September 11, 2009 (aged 60)

Bio: James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician.

Known for:

The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Poetry in Motion (1982)
Obscene (2007)
Listen to the City (1984)

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