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Jay Michaelson Quotes: [Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.
         

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.


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What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.




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In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."



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In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.



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In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.



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More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.





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We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.



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