Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.
You're better than no one and no one is better than you.
You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.
keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.
Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.
I never could guess your weight, baby.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you
It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.
and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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