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 LEBOWITZYou’re only as good as your last haircut.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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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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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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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear 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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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