Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
Interpretation
Profitability indicates a broader appeal than claimed special interest.
Fran Lebowitz highlights the irony in the concept of 'special-interest' publications by pointing out that if such publications are profitable through advertising and readership, their niche appeal may not be as unique or specialized as they suggest. This commentary invites reflection on the nature of interest and profit in media, suggesting that true 'special interests' may often struggle to find significant financial backing.
In practice
In a discussion about media's role in society.
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so youβre easier to read.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
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