"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost."
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"Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea."
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"It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender."
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"Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality."
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"The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living."
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"I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody."
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"The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling."
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"If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you."
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"There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac."
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"This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties."
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"GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me"
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"It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation."
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"It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it."
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"The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free."
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"I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life."
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"My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs."
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"Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter"
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"We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament."
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"At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again."
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