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"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."

"He who unlocks his greatest potential will reap his greatest treasures."
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"One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it."

"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"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."

"I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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