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.
FRAN LEBOWITZI never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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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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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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