Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSThe big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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