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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Tom Waits

I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITS

Food High Myself Table Trade
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
TOM WAITS

Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live

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