Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZIfyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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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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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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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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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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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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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 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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