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• ‟ In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

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• ‟ To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.

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• ‟ In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

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• ‟ For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

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• ‟ My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

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• ‟ When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

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