Buddy Wakefield Short Quotes

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Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.

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If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

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You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

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We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

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Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

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If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

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There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

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There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

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I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

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But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

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The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.

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If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

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I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

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Listen, if you're from Arizona I'm not making fun of your home. I'm making fun of you for gathering there and building a community in an oven. Smooth move.

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He's got a lead brain. It's a battle magnet. He carries it around by the guilt straps... don't laugh, you didn't see the size of the blizzard that birthed him.

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Forgiveness is for anyone who needs safe passage through my mind.
"We were never tragedies, we were emergencies. You call 911. Tell 'em I'm having a fantastic time."

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If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

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If we could all rephrase the question from "What was your most embarrassing moment?" to "What was your most embarrassing year?" Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.

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I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent but my insecurities are in all the right places, so go ahead, have a look.

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The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

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