Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
FRAN LEBOWITZI figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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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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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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