Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZRomantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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