If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITSIf you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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 never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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