Fran Lebowitz Quotes

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies

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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

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The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive

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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

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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 impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

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