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Fran Lebowitz Inspirational Quotes (209)

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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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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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
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Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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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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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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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. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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