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James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries; the book inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.

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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.

Brain, Levels, Long, Psyche, Television, Tube

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

Fashion, Giving, Heart, Know, Show

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Boys, Joy, Pain, Redeemed

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.

Children, Job, Jobs, Powerful, Take

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows. . . to open halfway each morning. . . to close halfway each night.

Close, Love, Mansion, Morning, Night, Window

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, Dream, Finger, Girl, Smile

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

Good, Real, Team, Uniforms, Wears

My voice has a quiver
A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Arrows, Keep, Quiver, Shoot, Voice

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.

Fast, Lightning, Play, Sensuous, Slightly, Way

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.

Color, Death, Dream, Empty, Light, Wetness

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.

Car, Hits, Move, Moving, Pedals, Vehicle

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.

Expressions, Growing Up, Rain, Rule, Sorry, Sort

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.

Ask, Falling In Love, Sharon, Tate, Too Late, Want

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.

Body, Like, Loyalty, Normally, Ones, Watches

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Conscience, Dead, Speaking

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

Branches, Graceful, Kids, Light, Marbles, Shoot

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

Die, Dies, Live, Mines, Sin, Sins

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

Backstage, Friends, Gets, Pass, Pay