Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZNothing succeeds like address.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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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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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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