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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.

Tom Waits

Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself

Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.

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