Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZRemember 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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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 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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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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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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