There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMONOne man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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