If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLINIn the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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