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• There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

  Robert Hunter

  Giving, Trying, Needs

  "Song: "Built to Last" ("Built to Last ")". 1989.

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• Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

  Robert Hunter

  Eye, Wake Up, World

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Moving, Inspiration

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

  Robert Hunter

  Hate, Philosophy, Waiting

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

  Robert Hunter

  Children, Son, Boys

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

  Robert Hunter

  Circles, Darkness, Lovers

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• Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

  Robert Hunter

  Maturity, People, Parent

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

  Robert Hunter

  Money, Just One, Loses

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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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• When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

  Robert Hunter

  Judging, Vote, Ready

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• I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

  Robert Hunter

  Jewels, Gold, Pay

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

  Robert Hunter

  Spiritual, Waiting, Way

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

  Robert Hunter

  Blue, Sky, Yellow

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Driving that train, high on cocaine
  Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
  Trouble ahead, trouble behind
  And you know that notion just crossed my mind

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Mind, Watches

  "Casey Jones" (song) (1971)

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

  Robert Hunter

  Doors, Worry, Looks

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

  Robert Hunter

  Writing, Matter, Depressive

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• Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

  Robert Hunter

  Morning, Fall, Blood

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• I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that.

  Robert Hunter

  Believe, Risk, Credit

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• I feel I've got 10 books in me.

  Robert Hunter

  Book, Feels

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• Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.

  Robert Hunter

  Brother, Expression, Unity

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• But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

  Robert Hunter

  Heart, Giving, Foolish

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

  Robert Hunter

  Fall, All Alone, Ifs

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

  Robert Hunter

  Sitting Down, Sitting, Bathtubs

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