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When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafe factory at the town's eastern edge. I don't like coffee but I like that smell. It's comforting; it unites the town in a common sensory experience; it's good industry, like the roaring rug mill that fills our ears, brings work and signals our town's vitality. There is a place here--you can hear it, smell it--where ..
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No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.
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When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electric introduction: "She was Italian, funny, a beatific tomboy, with just the hint of a lazy eye, and wore a pair of glasses that made me think of the wonders of the library."
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Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold
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I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
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cause down the shore everything's all right
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The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning. But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody performs this alchemy somewhere in their life, but it'..
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There's a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and get lost in a sea of blue. A Jersey-accented voice says, "It's about time, kid," and Frank Sinatra rattles the ice in his glass of Jack Daniel's. Looking at the swirling deep-brown liquid, he whispers, "Ain't it beautiful?" This is my introduction to the Chairman of the Board. We spend the next half hour talking Jersey, Hoboken, swimming in the Hudson River and the Shore. We then sit down for ..
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There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
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You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
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