Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZHaving been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical 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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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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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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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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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