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.

—Fran Lebowitz

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About Fran Lebowitz

Portrait of Fran Lebowitz

Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American writer, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life, particularly from a New York City perspective, and for her association with prominent figures in the city's art and cultural scenes...

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Nature is by and large to be found out-of-doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

—Fran Lebowitz

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

—Fran Lebowitz

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Money… buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.… The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Success didn't spoil me. I've always been insufferable.

—Fran Lebowitz

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.

—Francine Pascal in Sam

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Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.

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Being considered or labeled mentally disordered—abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used—is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the "patient" out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the "witch" out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms.

—Thomas Szasz

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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

—Jackie Mason

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