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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Tom Waits

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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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
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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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
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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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

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