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.
TOM WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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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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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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