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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Lily Tomlin

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
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 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
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
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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 like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work

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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