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.
FRAN LEBOWITZBeing a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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