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"Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely."

"He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect."

"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"

"Memories rob us of the present."
Explore more quotes by Bob Dylan

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid."

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
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