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I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

~Jim Carroll

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It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

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These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

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Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

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I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 1st, 1949

Died: September 11th, 2009

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