Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZDon’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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