The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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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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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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