The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
FRAN LEBOWITZAs a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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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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