There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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 piano has been drinking, not me.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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