It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
PAUL SIMONThen she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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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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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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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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