Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
FRAN LEBOWITZRomantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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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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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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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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