In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
FRAN LEBOWITZTo 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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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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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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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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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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