I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
FRAN LEBOWITZI figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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