Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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• Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
• What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is…
• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far…
• Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
• Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
• 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…
• If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look,…
• If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with…
• Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
• I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
• Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
• I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
• If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.
• You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.
• Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many -…
• I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
• If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
• People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice…
• Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
• If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

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