Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZYou 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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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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