Jim Carroll Quotes

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

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

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

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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.

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

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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 had no sense of loyalty.

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