Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
FRAN LEBOWITZThere is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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 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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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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