Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
FRAN LEBOWITZScientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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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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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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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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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 favorite animal is steak.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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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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