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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

Tom Waits

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth 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
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
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
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time

If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

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