I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
PAUL SIMONI 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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