Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSThe world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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