Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLINYou 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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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