Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
FRAN LEBOWITZThe opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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.
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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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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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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