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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”

Lily Tomlin

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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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking

When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”

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