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.
FRAN LEBOWITZYou’re only as good as your last haircut.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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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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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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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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