I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSTheir 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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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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