You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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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 guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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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