Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZIn the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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