Paul Simon Quotes
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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Silence is also conversation.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Silence is my dignity.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Silence is best.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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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.