A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITSThe world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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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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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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