"I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk."
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"G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive."
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"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."
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"..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent"
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"Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi"
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"Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this"
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"Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years."
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"It doesn't matter how anything happens."
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"I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover"
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"I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together."
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"His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close."
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"I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts"
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"I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions."
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"Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now."
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"Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know."
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"I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own."
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"Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all the songs about love and all the movies and all the books, there doesn't seem to be any way that we can prepare the human heart for this experience."
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"Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent."
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"I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion."
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"Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension."
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