"The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief."
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"And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty."
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"[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for."
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"They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion."
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"Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two."
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"I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order."
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"I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece."
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"You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal."
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"I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her"
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"The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work."
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"All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them"
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"There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music."
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"ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars"
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"Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on."
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"I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows."
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"No one masters the heart."
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"Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years."
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"Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention."
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"As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will"
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"Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time."
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