“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, quote from The Basketball Diaries
“Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light…
I just want to be pure.”
― Jim Carroll, quote from The Basketball Diaries
“they're fucking up minds they do not own.”
― Jim Carroll, quote from The Basketball Diaries
“To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.”
― Jim Carroll, quote from The Basketball Diaries
“It was in Central Park near the lake and I watched a weeping willow turn into a giant rooster and fly off. No tree remained. It glided beautifully into the sky, a big blue barnyard. My mind went with it, something all you bald head generals and wheelchair senators could never imagine.”
― Jim Carroll, quote from The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date August 1, 1950
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“The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Crystal Storm
“Guilt washes over me when I think of the wasted years and how blind I was to my own faults. It has been hard to confess. I am so thankful to now know my place as my husband’s helper and friend.”
― Debi Pearl, quote from Created to be His Help Meet
“أما الآن فكما ذكرت آنفاً فنحن في اللحظة التي ندرك فيها وجود طفيليات العقل، نكون قد هربنا من فخها المنصوب بإحكام وهو فخ تاريخي في الواقع. فالتاريخ نفسه كان سلاحها الرئيس. لقد أوقفت الطفيليات التاريخ خلال قرنين من الزمن حيث أصبح التاريخ البشري رمزاً لضعف الجنس البشري ولامبالاة الطبيعة ويأس الإنسان في مواجهة الضرورة.
إنّنا في اللحظة التي عرفنا فيها أنّ التاريخ قد توقف، بات التاريخ غير قادرعلى احتوائنا. لقد عدنا بأفكارنا إلى موزارت وبتهوفن وغوتيه وشلي وأيقنّا صحة المقولة بأنّ العظام يمكن أن يكونوا طعماً جيداً للطفيليات، ووجدنا من غير المجدي التحدث عن الضعف البشري كون الجنس البشري يملك قوة هائلة مالم يستنزفها مصاصو دماء الروح أولئك كل ليلة.”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Mind Parasites
“The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.”
― quote from One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
“Claro que estamos em guerra, e é guerra de sítio, cada um de nós cerca o outro e é cercado por ele, queremos deitar abaixo os muros do outro e continuar com os nossos, o amor será não haver mais barreiras, o amor é o fim do cerco.”
― José Saramago, quote from The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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