"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And……" — Paul Simon
"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."
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149 Quotes by Paul Simon
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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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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at…
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card…
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must…
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
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It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your…
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from…
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must…
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
— Walter Russell
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism,…
— Martin Seligman
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the…
— Carl Sagan
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