She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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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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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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