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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Tom Waits

Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
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
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

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