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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Tom Waits

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
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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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
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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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself

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