I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSI 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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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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