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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

Tom Waits

I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
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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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
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
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather

I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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