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  • If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

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

    Pay  
  • 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.

    Loyalty   Watches   Body  
    Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin
  • 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.

    Growing Up   Sorry   Rain  
    Jim Carroll (1993). “Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll”, Penguin Group USA
  • There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.

    Moving   Car   Pedals  
  • You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

    Fashion   Heart   Giving  
    Song: It's Too Late
  • Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

    Jim Carroll (1998). “Void of course: poems 1994-1997”, Penguin Group USA
  • It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

    Song: It's Too Late
  • I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

    Pain   Boys   Joy  
    Song: Catholic Boy
  • I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

    Morning   Night   Window  
    Jim Carroll (1993). “Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll”, Penguin Group USA
  • 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.

    Play   Lightning   Way  
  • My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

    Voice   Arrows   Quiver  
    "Void of Course". Book by Jim Carroll, www.theguardian.com. October 1998.
  • Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

    Long   Brain   Purpose  
    Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.176, Penguin
  • Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

    Kids   Light   Branches  
    Jim Carroll (1978). “The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15”
  • I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

    Sin   Mines   Dies  
  • 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.

    Dream   Light   Color  
  • Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

    Real   Team   Uniforms  
    Jim Carroll (1978). “The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15”
  • 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.

    Beautiful   Girl   Dream  
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