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Fran Lebowitz

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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
Romantic love is a 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...what starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
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Romantic love is a 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...what starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
If thine enemy offends thee, give his child a drum.
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If thine enemy offends thee, give his child a drum.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same tie that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
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Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same tie that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."
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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."
Romantic love is a 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...What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love.
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Romantic love is a 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...What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love.
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking a candy from a baby' has never tried taking a candy from a baby
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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking a candy from a baby' has never tried taking a candy from a baby
Los Angeles is a large city like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Los Angeles is a large city like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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