Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSI put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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 started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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