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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
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.
TOM WAITS

Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound

I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

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