The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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