Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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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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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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