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.
FRAN LEBOWITZI 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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You 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.
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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 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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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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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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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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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