The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
PAUL SIMONPeople ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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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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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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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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