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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

Tom Waits

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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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret

I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

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