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

Tom Waits

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman

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

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