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 LEBOWITZVery few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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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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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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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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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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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