The coproducer had discovered something it had taken as great a technical singer as Tony Bennett to articulate. Asked once if he thought Dylan could sing, the crooner replied, “He may not be able to sing, but he sure can phrase.”
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
― G-Man
― G-Man
“You said if X has something valuable and Y comes along and takes it away from him, and there is absolutely no way in the world X can ever get it back, then you come along and make a deal with X to get it back, and keep half. Then you just … live on that until it starts to run out. Is that the way it is, really?”
― The Deep Blue Good-By
― The Deep Blue Good-By
“Whether you stay a night or a year. Yours without invitation, yours to come and go without bothering to say hello or good-bye. Although I hope it will suit you to say hello to me frequently.”
― I Will Fear No Evil
― I Will Fear No Evil
“But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged chariot hurrying near,”
― Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape
― Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape
“Of course it’s all a game. All of the good and hard and even bad things in life are just a game.”
― The Crook Factory
― The Crook Factory
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