You’re only as good as your last haircut.
FRAN LEBOWITZEven when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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