Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
FRAN LEBOWITZHumility is no substitute for a good personality.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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