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

Tom Waits

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
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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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
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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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself

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