Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
FRAN LEBOWITZRomantic 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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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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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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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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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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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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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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