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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

Paul Simon

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
PAUL SIMON

Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Humble Known Pen Place Quiet Writing Yourself
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
PAUL SIMON

Change Same Strange
When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
PAUL SIMON

Impossible Music Myself Song
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
PAUL SIMON

Eat Food Inspiration Myself
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
PAUL SIMON

Mystery Simplicity
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Camera Care Man Myself
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
PAUL SIMON

Phrase Well Work
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
PAUL SIMON

Evidence Faith Hope Line Sun
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.
PAUL SIMON

Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
PAUL SIMON

Day Myself Self Love Smile
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
PAUL SIMON

Myself Photograph Song Writing
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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End Grave Result
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
PAUL SIMON

Body Bone Heart
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
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.
PAUL SIMON

Myself Natural Thinking World

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