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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

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
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
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself

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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