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• The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Past, Order

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

  Bob Dylan

  Flames, Names, Temptation

  Song: Every Grain Of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

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• Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Sin, Profession

  James Ensor, Bob Dylan (1999). “The Superhuman Crew”, p.38, Getty Publications

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• Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.

  Bob Dylan

  Letting Go, Looks, Gone

  Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

  Bob Dylan

  Kind, Jokes

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

  Bob Dylan

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

  Bob Dylan

  Oil, Politics, Soil

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

  Bob Dylan

  Passion, Interesting, Dumbness

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• Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

  Bob Dylan

  Brain, Needs, Nerves

  Song: Unbelievable, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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• I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Believe, Unique

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• Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

  Bob Dylan

  Fun, Truth Is, Wet

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• You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Way, Incredibles

  Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

  Bob Dylan

  Bells, Blind, Deaf

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• I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

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• Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

  Bob Dylan

  Titles, Way, Accolades

  "Bob Dylan Doesn't Accept Being The 'Voice Of His Generation'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 12, 2004.

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• I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Magazines, Too Much

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• Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

  Bob Dylan

  Names, Deny, Call Me

  Song: Farewell, Angelina

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• If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

  Bob Dylan

  Wings, Should, Ask Me

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• They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Jobs, Self

  Song: Trouble in Mind

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

  Bob Dylan

  Rip, Lying, Hate

  Song: My Back Pages

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• How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

  Bob Dylan

  People, Died, Knows

  "Blowin' in the Wind" (song) (1962)

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• Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Might, Action

  "Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Stories, Sticks

  "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.

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• Every step of the way we walk the line
  Your days are numbered, so are mine
  Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape
  We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Struggle, Lines

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.862, Simon and Schuster

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