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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Tom Waits

The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
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
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself

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