Paul Simon Short Quotes

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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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The mother and child reunion is only a motion away.

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The Mississippi Delta was shining
like a National guitar.

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Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again.

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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

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

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You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

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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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The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

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I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

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I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

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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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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

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

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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

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Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

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When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all.

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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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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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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 leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

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So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

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Hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

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When times get rough,
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

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I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

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