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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
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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Admire Death Feeling People
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
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.
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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
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself

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