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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.

Lily Tomlin

When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
In 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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk

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