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.
FRAN LEBOWITZAndy Warhol made fame more famous.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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