Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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