And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSThe world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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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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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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