There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSCome down off the cross, we could use the wood.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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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.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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