The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
PAUL SIMONLord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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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 I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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