My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
FRAN LEBOWITZRadio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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