These are the days of miracle and wonder.
PAUL SIMONAnthony 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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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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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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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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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 want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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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.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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