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Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.
Jimmy Buffett
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Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
Jimmy Buffett
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You better lava me now or lava me not.
Jimmy Buffett
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Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.
Jimmy Buffett
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We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!
Jimmy Buffett
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I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
Jimmy Buffett
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Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
Jimmy Buffett
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I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?
Jimmy Buffett
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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Jimmy Buffett
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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett
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I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
Jimmy Buffett
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You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
Jimmy Buffett
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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett
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Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.
Jimmy Buffett
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett
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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
Jimmy Buffett
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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
Jimmy Buffett
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If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.
Jimmy Buffett
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Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.
Jimmy Buffett
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The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.
Jimmy Buffett
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It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.
Jimmy Buffett
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
Jimmy Buffett
