The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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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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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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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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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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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