If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
FRAN LEBOWITZDesigner clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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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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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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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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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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