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    Jim Carroll
    “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 can dance.”
    ― Jim Carroll
    tags: poem
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Jim Carroll
    “I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

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    ― Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems
    tags: poetry, sins
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    Jim Carroll
    “Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
    ― Jim Carroll
    tags: afterlife, conscience, death, ghosts, poetry
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    Jim Carroll
    “Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible. ”
    ― Jim Carroll, Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973
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    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, The Basketball Diaries
    tags: love
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    Jim Carroll
    “I love this mansion, though it is too many windows
    ...to open halfway each morning
    ...to close halfway each night.”
    ― Jim Carroll
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    Jim Carroll
    “You see, you just don't know
    I'm here to give you my heart
    And you want some fashion show”
    ― Jim Carroll
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    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, The Petting Zoo
    tags: time
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    Jim Carroll
    “they're fucking up minds they do not own.”
    ― jim carroll, The Basketball Diaries
    tags: the-basketball-diaries
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    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, The Basketball Diaries
    tags: poignant
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help
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    Janis Joplin
    “Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”
    ― Janis Joplin
    tags: be-yourself, self-actualization, self-awareness, self-reliance
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    Janis Joplin
    “I'm one of those regular weird people.”
    ― Janis Joplin
    tags: musicians
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    Janis Joplin
    “Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ”
    ― Janis Joplin
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    Janis Joplin
    “Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
    ― Janis Joplin
    tags: materialism, prayer
    43 likes

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    Kurt Cobain
    “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: inspirational
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance
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    Neil Young
    “It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
    ― Neil Young
    tags: death, end, life
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: cobain, humor, kurt, nirvana, perfect, practic
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    Kurt Cobain
    “There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: cobain
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    Kurt Cobain
    “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: activism, dissent, protest, truth-telling
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11403 likes



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