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01c. 1941 AD

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

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02c. 1941 AD

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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03c. 1941 AD

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

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04c. 1941 AD

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

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05c. 1941 AD

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

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06c. 1941 AD

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

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07c. 1941 AD

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

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08c. 1941 AD

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.

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09c. 1941 AD

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

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10c. 1941 AD

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

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11c. 1941 AD

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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12c. 1941 AD

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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13c. 1941 AD

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

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14c. 1941 AD

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

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15c. 1941 AD

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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16c. 1941 AD

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

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17c. 1941 AD

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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18c. 1941 AD

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

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19c. 1941 AD

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

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20c. 1941 AD

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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21c. 1941 AD

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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22c. 1941 AD

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

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23c. 1941 AD

It's not easy to define poetry.

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24c. 1941 AD

There is nothing so stable as change.

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