I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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 think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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