"In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled."

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Source : "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

Fran Lebowitz

#Culture Quotes #Facts Quotes #Exceptional Quotes

“Alone. The saddest word in the world.”

Source : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
“A person can't help their birth.”
“In 1965, in Reed v. Van Hoven, a court determined (237 F.Supp. 48. W.D.Mich. 1965.) that it was permissible for students to pray over their lunch at school so long as no one knew they were praying - that is, they couldn't say words or move their lips, but they could pray only if no one knew about it!”
“You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.”

Source : Robert Emmet (1803). “The trial of Robert Emmet: upon an indictment for high treason. Special commission”, p.111
“You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.”
“Love will turn you on your head.”
“My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.”

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