Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
FRAN LEBOWITZI 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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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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