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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Tom Waits

I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
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
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself

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