Amanda Filipacchi Quotes

Amanda Filipacchi shares witty musings on tiny joys and odd habits, ideal for those who love a playful, reflective read.

12 quotes

1. 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 eating while reading.

2. I bring Laura to the edge of the clapping crowd, and I watch her sink, becoming engulfed in the sea of clapter.

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

4. '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.'

5. Lynn stalked. She had taken up stalking for health reasons, but it was not paying off as handsomely as she had hoped.

6. '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.'

7. Reality is so dull, Alan thought. Any mistake in one's perception of it is inevitably more interesting than the real thing, and lucky are those who remain uninformed of their error.

8. His body was now very close to hers, and he dared to bring his hand under her skirt. 'Where is your underwear?' he asked. 'I lost it.' 'Where?' 'In the garden. It fell off when I was spying. I didn't have time to retrieve it.'

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. “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.”

12. “When I asked him for some explanation as to why he wanted to kill me, he said it was because he didn't like his jobs. When I asked him since when had he not liked his jobs, he said since always. When I remarked that he had never told me this, and that I had gotten the impression that he had liked them, he said: "How is that possible? You know me. Do I strike you as stupid or boring?" "No." "Then how could you think I would enjoy being an etiquette expert, or a Weight Watchers' counselor, or a stripper? How could you think that someone like me, with my mind, my character, would derive any satisfaction from those things?”