Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
FRAN LEBOWITZEven when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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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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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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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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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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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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