Romantic 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.
FRAN LEBOWITZIf you’re going to America, bring your own food.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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