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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.

Tom Waits

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way 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
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
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.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See

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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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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