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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.

Tom Waits

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
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
TOM WAITS

Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITS

Devil Drink God Himself Known
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust 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.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITS

Gentle Man Play
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

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.

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