Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Your life story would not make a good book. Do not even try.

Fran Lebowitz

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If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Fran Lebowitz

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People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

Fran Lebowitz

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It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated with someone who might at any given moment write a poem in public.

Fran Lebowitz

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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?

Fran Lebowitz


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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

Fran Lebowitz

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

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