"I feel I should try to reveal...." - Quote by Paul Simon
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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“And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.”
“We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.”
“She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.”
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“Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”