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Fran Lebowitz Inspirational Quotes (209)

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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
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Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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