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.
FRAN LEBOWITZThe conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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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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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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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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