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41 " People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child. "
― Paul Simon , Paul Simon: The Rhythm of the Saints
42 " The Sound Of Silence"Hello, darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silenceIn restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone'Neath the halo of a streetlampI turned my collar to the cold and dampWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon lightThat split the nightAnd touched the sound of silenceAnd in the naked light I sawTen thousand people, maybe morePeople talking without speakingPeople hearing without listeningPeople writing songs that voices never shareNo one daredDisturb the sound of silence"Fools," said I, "You do not knowSilence like a cancer growsHear my words that I might teach youTake my arms that I might reach you."But my words like silent raindrops fellAnd echoed in the wells of silenceAnd the people bowed and prayedTo the neon god they madeAnd the sign flashed out its warningIn the words that it was formingAnd the sign said, "The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence."Paul Simon, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964) "
― Paul Simon
43 " All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. "
― Paul Simon , Bridge over Troubled Water
44 " When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school; It's a wonder I can think at all. "
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45 " One man's ceiling is another man's floor. "
46 " And I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, forsakenIn her cold coffee eyes "
47 " Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoonGoing to the candidates' debateLaugh about it, shout about itWhen you've got to chooseEvery way you look at this you lose "
48 " A man gets tied up to the ground, he gives the world its saddest sound. "
― Paul Simon , Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge over Troubled Water (Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel) (Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel)
49 " And a rock feels no painAnd an island never cries "
50 " America"“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes togetherI’ve got some real estate here in my bag”So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s piesAnd walked off to look for America“Kathy,” I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh“Michigan seems like a dream to me nowIt took me four days to hitch-hike from SaginawI’ve come to look for America”Laughing on the busPlaying games with the facesShe said the man in the gabardine suit was a spyI said, “Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera”“Toss me a cigarette, I think there’s one in my raincoat”“We smoked the last one an hour ago”So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazineAnd the moon rose over an open field“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, thought I knew she was sleeping.“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”Counting the cars on the New Jersey TurnpikeThey’ve all come to look for AmericaAll come to look for AmericaAll come to look for AmericaBookends (1968) "