All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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