I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
FRAN LEBOWITZAll God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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