“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”

— Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Variant: The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew...

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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“He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,
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“All the times that I’ve cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
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“Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

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“… the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,….”

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“I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.”

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“A lot of times, as I like to say, I was the only chip in the cookie…I chose to embrace who I am and what I do, and keep my head down and keep writing, and hoped that things would change. But it was lonely in the sense that I was the only.”

Beverly Jenkins (1951) American author of historical and contemporary romance novels

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“Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”

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