Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
FRAN LEBOWITZThe opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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