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Fran Lebowitz Inspirational Quotes (209)

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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
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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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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
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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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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
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