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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

Tom Waits

If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
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.
TOM WAITS

Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
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
TOM WAITS

Myself Prayer Religious
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.
TOM WAITS

Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS

Cruelty Kind Man Oneself

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