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“Just how much abuse will you be able to take? Well, there's no way to tell by the first kiss.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

“I’m out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
I'm seein' your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings”

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Song to Woody

“Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives…”

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

“Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.”

Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Maybe Someday

“Ev'rybody's in despair,
Ev'ry girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy.”

Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”

Bob Dylan Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)

“It is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.”

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

“You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins.”

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War

“Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want.”

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

“Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”

Quoted in "POP/JAZZ; A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind" http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/arts/pop-jazz-a-wiser-voice-blowin-in-the-autumn-wind.html by Jon Pareles, The New York Times (28 September 1997)

“We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view…”

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

“Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.”

Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song

“People starving and thirsting; grain elevators are bursting. You know, it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.”

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train

“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi

“You go watch the geek, who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak, and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?, and you say, impossible as he hands you a bone.”

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man

“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”

Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), Hard Times In New York Town (recorded 1961)

“The enemy is subtle. How be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.”

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel

“You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.”

No Direction Home (2005)