"The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid."
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"Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse."
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"Sanity - a trick of agreement"
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"I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric."
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"Mind is shapely, Art is shapely."
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"I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do."
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"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"
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"The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization."
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"What is obscenity? And to whom?"
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"Others can measure their visions by what we see."
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"It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population."
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"The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go."
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"To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing."
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"I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power."
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"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"
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"Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery."
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"Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on."
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"The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself."
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"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"
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"You can't photograph everything."
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