Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZPolite conversation is rarely either.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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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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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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