And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
PAUL SIMONThe 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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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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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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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