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 LEBOWITZContrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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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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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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