Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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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 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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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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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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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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