When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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 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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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