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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.

Tom Waits

I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
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
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself

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