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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

Tom Waits

All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
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
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.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Death Drive Man Trust Yourself

I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

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