My favorite animal is steak.
FRAN LEBOWITZVerbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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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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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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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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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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