Polite conversation is rarely either.
FRAN LEBOWITZVegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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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 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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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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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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 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.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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