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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

Tom Waits

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself

The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

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