Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
FRAN LEBOWITZIf you’re going to America, bring your own food.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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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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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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