"Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male."
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"Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers."
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"In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)"
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"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
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"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."
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"Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools."
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"It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring."
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"I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright."
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"I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."
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"I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."
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"My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands."
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"I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you."
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"Too much information about nothing."
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"I never saw myself as a folk singer."
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"Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins."
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"You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."
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"And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71"
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"Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within."
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"Everybody's the first somebody, y'know."
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"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid"
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