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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Tom Waits

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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
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
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst 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

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