All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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