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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Tom Waits

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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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITS

Guy Ring Sell Type
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS

Capture End Feature Song Writing
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITS

People Scare Success Yourself
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself

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