I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to le…

Bob Dylan
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I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right. ✨ Bob Dylan (2011). Chronicles, p.59, Simon and Schuster
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