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"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
— Tom Waits

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"it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"
— Tom Waits

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"You know there ain't no devil, that's just God when he's drunk..."
— Tom Waits

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"When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane."
— Tom Waits

tags: lyrics
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"Q: What’s hard for you?

A: 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. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

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— Tom Waits

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"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"
— Tom Waits

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"Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)"
— Tom Waits

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"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

tags: bond, death, james, philosophy, poetry
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"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: death
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"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: death, murder
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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
— William S. Burroughs

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"If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: 1914, american, b-, writer
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"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."
— William S. Burroughs

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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: beat, fiction, satire, science
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"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: love, risk
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"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. "
— William S. Burroughs

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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: burroughs, change, escape, inspirational
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"I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink..."
— William S. Burroughs

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"It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music,
sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to
produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae
to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any
more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.
Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make
things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's
formulae."
— William S. Burroughs

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"The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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— William S. Burroughs

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"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom."
— William S. Burroughs

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"Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one."
— William S. Burroughs

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"Cowboy: New York hood talk means kill the mother fucker wherever you find him. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat. Is an informer."
— William S. Burroughs

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"“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”"
— William S Burroughs

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"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
— William Blake

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
— William Blake

tags: betrayal
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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
— William Blake

tags: opinions, thought
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"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
— William Blake

tags: inspirational
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"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
— William Blake

tags: desire, self-control
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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

tags: experience, inspiration, unschooling
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)

tags: love
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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
— William Blake

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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence And of Experience)

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"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
— William Blake

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"THE POISON TREE

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree."
— William Blake

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"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow"
— William Blake

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"This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye."
— William Blake

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"A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. "
— William Blake

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"I give you the end of a golden string,
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall."
— William Blake

tags: poetry
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"My arms are too short to box with God."
— Johnny Cash

tags: arms, boxing, god
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,653 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,910 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,065 people liked it

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