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

Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner 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
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing

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