Jim Carroll Quotes


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.


Citations

Carroll, Jim. The Basketball Diaries. Penguin Books, 1980.

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Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
  • Born: August 1, 1949
  • Died: September 11, 2009
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author, Poet, Musician

James Dennis Carroll 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.