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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

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.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
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
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
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.
TOM WAITS

Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself

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