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Q: What’s hard for you? Tom Waits: 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.

Q: What’s hard for you? 

Tom Waits: 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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1 year ago on January 05, 2012 at 05:46pm
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    When I was still taking math I used to tell my mom that it was hard and she would laugh because of this terrible Barbie....
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    What’s hard for you? Tom Waits: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb...
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    omg tom waits ;n; that quote… is my soul. now i want to watch wristcutters again.
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