Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
FRAN LEBOWITZWhen you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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