We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
PAUL SIMONIt was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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