You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMONIt’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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