Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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