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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.

Tom Waits

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
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust 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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon

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