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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

Tom Waits

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
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
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
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.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
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.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight

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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