“If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Please Call Me, Baby", The Heart of Saturday Night (1974).
“… the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left…”
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