Quote by Tom Waits
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagin

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. – Tom Waits

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cool
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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone whos connected with it, the studios gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing thats left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. – Tom Waits

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Travel
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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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History
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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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Imagination

Imagination decides everything. – Blaise Pascal

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Imagination

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Imagination

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, its a way to get information and find out whats going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. – Breckin Meyer

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Imagination

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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. – Margaret Walker

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Poetry

I Am Number Four is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior. – Alex Pettyfer

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Romantic

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Reality

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. – Author Unknown

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Health