“Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.”

—  Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

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

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