I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLINThe start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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 bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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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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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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