You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
FRAN LEBOWITZVery few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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.
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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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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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