Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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