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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Tom Waits

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.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

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