Amanda Filipacchi Quotes

• One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

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  Cookies, Coke, Life Is

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

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  Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Unhealthy

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

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  Thinking, People, Goes On

  Amanda Filipacchi (2015). “The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

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  Beer, Feel Better, Appreciate

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• For months I had been trying to be less myself.

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  Trying, Months

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

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  Reading, Men, Important

  "Nude Men". Book by Amanda Filipacchi, 1993.

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• Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Elephants, Wish, Trying

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