Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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• I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
• To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
• All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing…
• There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by…
• To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
• It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry.…
• I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
• Sleep is death without the responsibility.
• When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
• There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
• That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest…
• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
• If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
• I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
• Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's…
• There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
• Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans
• One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.
• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuousare advised to choose the latter

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