Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITSShe’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I was always laughing in church.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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