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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.

Tori Amos

I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid

I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.

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