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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor life will only be something you can get through the mail.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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