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One Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
- The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's…
- Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that…
- No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
- My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if…
- Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
- I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep…
- 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…
- Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
- 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…
- 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.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster