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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Tom Waits

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
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
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 always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

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