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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.

Tom Waits

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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
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
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself

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