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.
FRAN LEBOWITZSuccess didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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