Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
FRAN LEBOWITZIf you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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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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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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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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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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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.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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