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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

Tom Waits

When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS

Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

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