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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
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 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
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
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 guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex

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