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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.

Tom Waits

Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
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 was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train

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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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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