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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

Tom Waits

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
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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Bad Difficult Myself Work
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
TOM WAITS

Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

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