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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

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.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN

End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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 like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLIN

Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
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
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
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Funny Myself Serious

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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