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.
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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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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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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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