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How can you live in the Northeast?

Paul Simon

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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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Move Myself Room Smoke
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Angry Heart Jealous Myself Soul
No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Dare Disturb Oneself Silence Sound
You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Beautiful Life Yourself
If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Body Friendship Guard Myself
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Brave Face Myself
Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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Creativity Myself Player Preparation Sing Singer Writing
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
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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Belief Doubt Known See Stand True Yourself
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
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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Lost Measurement Note Place Reading
We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Believe Better Hope Life Survive
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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Arrange Artist Element Live Myself
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Hope Nostalgia Romantic Sound Training
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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Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Break Up Leave Lover
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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Feeling Guitar Play Song Time Writing
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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Back Discussion Freedom Need Planning Yourself
After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Book Myself Poetry Protection
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Burst Glory Song Sound
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Course Life Run Time

How can you live in the Northeast?

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